Toowoomba Grammar School

Toowoomba Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding grammar school for boys, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.The school was founded in 1875 as a consequence of the Grammar Schools Act of 1860 passed by Queensland's first parliament. The original building was designed by Willoughby Powell and completed in 1876, first opening its doors to boys on 1 February 1877. Toowoomba Grammar has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1085 students from Prep to Year 12, including 280 boarders from Years 5 to 12.The school is affiliated with the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ), and has been a member of the Great Public Schools' Association Inc (GPS) since 1920.CurriculumThe school uses the Queensland Curriculum throughout its education with the school broken down into several categories: Junior School Transition Senior School Senior Students from Junior and Transition have set subjects which is decided upon by the class teacher whilst students who are in Year 8 move between classes and are exposed to various subject selections the school offers. Once a student gets into Year 9 they can select three of their six subjects and then in Year 11 they are allowed to choose four of their subjects as well as selecting their strands in their selected core subjects.