Most expensive private schools in Australia

Compulsory Year 9 'Timbertop' wilderness boarding campus (Mansfield) · Founder of the Positive Education movement in Australia · Australia's most expensive school; one of Asia-Pacific's best-known boarding schools

Consistently Sydney's top HSC academic results · Strong Classics, Latin and humanities tradition · GPS sport member with strong rowing and athletics

Consistently top-five NSW HSC ranked school · Inner-city campus with strong creative arts focus · Progressive Anglican social-justice ethos

IB Primary Years Programme and Diploma Programme · Up to 80 boarders Years 7-12 · Sibling discounts of 7.5%-15%

Australia's oldest independent school · One of the largest GPS boarding schools (~430 boarders) · Strong rugby and cadet program tradition

Both IB Diploma and HSC offered (rare combination) · Hampshire House boarding for senior students · Harbourside Rose Bay campus with strong rowing

IB Diploma offered alongside HSC · Recently became co-educational from K-12 · Eastern Suburbs harbourside campus with strong arts program

GPS member with strong rugby and rowing · IB Diploma offered alongside HSC · Transitioning to co-education from 2026 (Year 5) and 2028 (Year 7-12)

GPS founding member with strong rowing on Sydney Harbour · Northwood and Northbridge campuses with extensive sport facilities · Anglican formation with chapel program

Australia's oldest secondary school (est. 1851) · Elite APS sport across cricket, football and rowing · National boarding house of approximately 160 students

Strong music program (one of largest school music programs in Australia) · AAGPS sport member with strong rugby and rowing · Field studies centre at Woollamia

Has offered the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma since 1988 - longer than any other school in NSW - running it alongside the HSC; the Year 9 Moonbah Program is a bespoke nine-week residential experience at the school's own High Country Campus in Jindabyne · One of Sydney's highest-ICSEA schools at 1193 (~99th percentile, ~84% of students in the top socio-educational quarter); a premium, top-tier fee school with 2026 secondary tuition at $43,800-$47,100 · Distinctive experiential learning beyond the classroom: a compulsory Year 10 Arnhem Land cultural immersion with Culture College, an optional ten-week Year 10 Winter School at Jindabyne, and a transition to school-managed devices (MacBook Air for Year 7). Founded 1884, originally a girls' school, fully co-educational independent Anglican grammar today

Compulsory Year 9 residential at Howqua rural campus · IB Diploma offered alongside VCE · National-medal-winning rowing program (Head of the Yarra)

28-time Head of the River rowing champions · Internationally touring symphony orchestra · Strong VCE results, median ATAR consistently 90+

IB Primary Years and HSC offered · Strong STEM and innovation program · AHIGS sport with elite rowing and aquatics

ICSEA 1163 — more educationally advantaged than roughly 96% of Australian schools; one of the highest-ICSEA Catholic girls' schools in NSW · Member of the global Society of the Sacred Heart network (Goals & Criteria of Sacred Heart education); harbourfront Rose Bay campus on the former Convent of the Sacred Heart estate dating to 1882 · One of the few remaining girls' boarding schools in eastern Sydney — around 150 boarders Year 7-12, with sibling discounts of 25% on boarding

Only Victorian school offering IB from early childhood through Year 12 · Year 9 Clunes residential learning campus · Yiramalay/Wesley Indigenous education partnership in the Kimberley

Largest GPS boys' school with broad co-curricular program · Strong rugby, rowing and athletics · Wellbeing-led 'Total Boy' framework

Coordinate Program with Ruyton Girls' School for shared VCE classes (since 1993) · IB Primary Years Programme in Junior School · Compulsory outdoor education program Years 7-10

Southern Highlands rural boarding · Strong equestrian + outdoor education · Sterling student leadership model

Offers the full International Baccalaureate Diploma to all Years 11-12 as an alternative to the HSC; named No. 1 IB School in Australia in 2021 and a Top 50 Global IB School, with 70+ students achieving the perfect IB score of 45 since 2002 · ICSEA 1184 - the highest of these four schools and among the top girls' schools nationally; girls-only Pre-K to Year 12 · Founded 1886 to prepare girls for University of Sydney entry, one of the first Australian schools to offer girls the same education as boys; day-only since boarding closed in 1979 after a fire

ICSEA 1179 (around the 98th percentile nationally) - one of NSW's most academically advantaged independent schools · Completed transition to full co-education in 2022 after introducing girls in senior years in 1975; now Pre-K to Year 12 co-ed on a single Hornsby campus · Boarding for Years 9-12 ($38,830) drawing rural and international students; notable alumni include Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett, film director Philip Noyce and cricketer Lisa Sthalekar

One of Australia's oldest girls' schools (founded 1888) and one of the few Sydney girls' schools still offering boarding, available from Year 7 · Years 11-12 students can choose Cambridge A Levels as an alternative pathway to the HSC, alongside a curriculum spanning languages and robotics · ICSEA 1154, girls-only Pre-K to Year 12 on a 4.4-hectare Inner West campus at Croydon with around 1,288 students

Computing and digital innovation program · Fully co-educational since 2018 · Boarding houses for senior students

Strong VCE academic results (median 34, 20% scoring 40+) · AGSV member with strong sport program · Established music, debating and outdoor education programs across Junior, Middle and Senior Schools

First school in the world to introduce 1:1 laptops (1990) · Both VCE and IB Diploma pathways offered · Marshmead and Banksia outdoor education campuses

IB Diploma offered alongside VCE in Years 11-12 (since 1997) · Carey Toonallook outdoor education campus in Gippsland · Strong music program via the Phil de Young Performing Arts Centre

Jesuit education in the Ignatian tradition · Largest GPS boarding school by tradition; major rowing program · Strong service-learning and Jesuit retreat program

IB World School (PYP and Diploma) · Award-winning STEM and design programs · Strong music and dance co-curricular

Consistently top HSC results among Sydney girls' schools · Strong music and choral program · Sister school to Knox Grammar (joint events)