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School TypeCombined
Year RangeU, 6-12
AddressGREGORY TERRACE Brisbane QLD 4000
Phone02 3834 5311
Website http://www.brisbanegrammar.com
GenderMale
RegionMetropolitan
Students1675
Boys1675
Girls0
ICSEA Value1215
Aus. Average1000
Finances per student$28,541
Aus. Average per student$17,550
Australian Government13%
State/Territory Government6%
Fees, parent contributions etc75%
Others5%
School Ranking History for Brisbane Grammar School
2015 2014 2013
NAPLAN (Primary) N/A N/A N/A
NAPLAN (Secondary) N/A N/A N/A
OPs|QCE N/A N/A N/A
Student Distribution for Brisbane Grammar School
Total Enrollments (Approx): 1675; Full Time Student Teacher Ratio: 11.9/1
ICSEA Score: 1215;
Students of Non-English Speaking Background in 2015 NAPLAN tests: 15%
Bottom Quarter Middle Quarters Top Quarter
Student Distribution 0% 2% 10% 88%
Australian Average 25% 25% 25% 25%
Total Enrollments (Approx): 1535; Full Time Student Teacher Ratio: 12.1/1
ICSEA Score: 1208;
Students of Non-English Speaking Background in 2014 NAPLAN tests: 23%
Bottom Quarter Middle Quarters Top Quarter
Student Distribution 1% 2% 10% 87%
Australian Average 25% 25% 25% 25%
Total Enrollments (Approx): 1436; Full Time Student Teacher Ratio: 12.2/1
Student Attendence Rate: 94%
ICSEA Score: 1221;
Students of Non-English Speaking Background in 2013 NAPLAN tests: 20%
Bottom Quarter Middle Quarters Top Quarter
Student Distribution 0% 2% 9% 89%
Australian Average 25% 25% 25% 25%
Total Enrollments (Approx): 1436; Full Time Student Teacher Ratio: 12.2/1
Student Attendence Rate: 96%
ICSEA Score: 1189;
Students of Non-English Speaking Background in 2012 NAPLAN tests: 17%
Bottom Quarter Middle Quarters Top Quarter
Student Distribution 0% 1% 14% 85%
Australian Average 25% 25% 25% 25%
Total Enrollments (Approx): 1428; Full Time Student Teacher Ratio: 11.9/1
Student Attendence Rate: 96%
ICSEA Score: 1193;
Students of Non-English Speaking Background in 2011 NAPLAN tests: 17%
Bottom Quarter Middle Quarters Top Quarter
Student Distribution 1% 1% 15% 83%
Australian Average 25% 25% 25% 25%
Total Enrollments (Approx): 1409; Full Time Student Teacher Ratio: 11.5/1
Student Attendence Rate: 97%
ICSEA Score: 1170;
Students of Non-English Speaking Background in 2010 NAPLAN tests: 4%
Bottom Quarter Middle Quarters Top Quarter
Student Distribution 2% 4% 17% 78%
Australian Average 25% 25% 25% 25%
Total Enrollments (Approx): 1436; Full Time Student Teacher Ratio: 11.9/1
Student Attendence Rate: 91%
ICSEA Score: 1136;
Students of Non-English Speaking Background in 2009 NAPLAN tests: 18%
Bottom Quarter Middle Quarters Top Quarter
Student Distribution 2% 6% 24% 67%
Australian Average 25% 25% 25% 25%
Student Distribution

2015

88%Top Quarter

  • ICSEA Score1215
  • Attendence RateN/A
  • Enrollments1675
  • Non-English Speaking15%
  • Top Quarter88%
  • Middle Top Quarter10%
  • Middle Bottom Quarter2%
  • Bottom Quarter0%

2014

87%Top Quarter

  • ICSEA Score1208
  • Attendence RateN/A
  • Enrollments1535
  • Non-English Speaking23%
  • Top Quarter87%
  • Middle Top Quarter10%
  • Middle Bottom Quarter2%
  • Bottom Quarter1%

2013

89%Top Quarter

  • ICSEA Score1221
  • Attendence Rate94%
  • Enrollments1436
  • Non-English Speaking20%
  • Top Quarter89%
  • Middle Top Quarter9%
  • Middle Bottom Quarter2%
  • Bottom Quarter0%

2012

85%Top Quarter

  • ICSEA Score1189
  • Attendence Rate96%
  • Enrollments1436
  • Non-English Speaking17%
  • Top Quarter85%
  • Middle Top Quarter14%
  • Middle Bottom Quarter1%
  • Bottom Quarter0%

2011

83%Top Quarter

  • ICSEA Score1193
  • Attendence Rate96%
  • Enrollments1428
  • Non-English Speaking17%
  • Top Quarter83%
  • Middle Top Quarter15%
  • Middle Bottom Quarter1%
  • Bottom Quarter1%

2010

78%Top Quarter

  • ICSEA Score1170
  • Attendence Rate97%
  • Enrollments1409
  • Non-English Speaking4%
  • Top Quarter78%
  • Middle Top Quarter17%
  • Middle Bottom Quarter4%
  • Bottom Quarter2%

2009

67%Top Quarter

  • ICSEA Score1136
  • Attendence Rate91%
  • Enrollments1436
  • Non-English Speaking18%
  • Top Quarter67%
  • Middle Top Quarter24%
  • Middle Bottom Quarter6%
  • Bottom Quarter2%
NAPLAN Ranking - Primary Schools
2009

Rank 2nd Primary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 87
  • Reading 89
  • Writing 74
  • Language 81
  • Numeracy 100
2010

Rank 1st Primary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 93
  • Reading 98
  • Writing 90
  • Language 81
  • Numeracy 100
2011

Rank 1st Primary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 96
  • Reading 96
  • Writing 100
  • Language 88
  • Numeracy 100
2012

Rank 1st Primary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 93
  • Reading 91
  • Writing 98
  • Language 81
  • Numeracy 100
2013

Rank 1st Primary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 99
  • Reading 100
  • Writing 100
  • Language 95
  • Numeracy 100
2014

Rank 3rd Primary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 91
  • Reading 88
  • Writing 84
  • Language 92
  • Numeracy 100
2015

Rank 2nd Primary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 93
  • Reading 95
  • Writing 88
  • Language 88
  • Numeracy 98
NAPLAN Ranking - Secondary Schools
2009

Rank 1st Secondary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 94
  • Reading 83
  • Writing 94
  • Language 98
  • Numeracy 100
2010

Rank 2nd Secondary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 97
  • Reading 95
  • Writing 97
  • Language 96
  • Numeracy 100
2011

Rank 2nd Secondary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 97
  • Reading 100
  • Writing 100
  • Language 87
  • Numeracy 100
2012

Rank 1st Secondary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 97
  • Reading 93
  • Writing 100
  • Language 94
  • Numeracy 100
2013

Rank 1st Secondary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 96
  • Reading 90
  • Writing 100
  • Language 95
  • Numeracy 100
2014

Rank 2nd Secondary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 96
  • Reading 92
  • Writing 100
  • Language 92
  • Numeracy 100
2015

Rank 3rd Secondary Schools In QLD

  • Overall 95
  • Reading 89
  • Writing 99
  • Language 92
  • Numeracy 100
OPs|QCE Ranking - High Schools
2009

Rank 1st 2009 qce Ranking

  • Total Students 250
  • %OP 1~5 48.8
  • %OP 1~10 82.8
  • %OP 1~15 96.0
2010

Rank 2nd 2010 qce Ranking

  • Total Students 244
  • %OP 1~5 46.1
  • %OP 1~10 79.4
  • %OP 1~15 94.0
2011

Rank 1st 2011 qce Ranking

  • Total Students 237
  • %OP 1~5 54.4
  • %OP 1~10 83.5
  • %OP 1~15 94.9
2012

Rank N/A 2012 QCE Ranking

  • Total Students N/A
  • %OP 1~5 N/A
  • %OP 1~10 N/A
  • %OP 1~15 N/A
2013

Rank 1st 2013 qce Ranking

  • Total Students 241
  • %OP 1~5 49.0
  • %OP 1~10 78.4
  • %OP 1~15 92.1
2014

Rank 1st 2014 qce Ranking

  • Total Students 247
  • %OP 1~5 61.5
  • %OP 1~10 83.4
  • %OP 1~15 96.0
2015

Rank 3rd 2015 qce Ranking

  • Total Students 247
  • %OP 1~5 56.3
  • %OP 1~10 86.6
  • %OP 1~15 98.4

Message from the Headmaster

Brisbane Grammar School has an outstanding 144-year historical commitment to educating boys which is expressed both in terms of academic outcomes and the development of life-long learners. Each boy is encouraged and supported to discover and fulfil his unique potential within an academic program that aims to develop a broad knowledge base, higher order thinking skills and dispositions that promote intelligent behaviour.

As educators and lifelong learners ourselves, we aspire to a learning culture that is never complacent. We constantly review and develop our programs, practices and facilities, seeking that optimal blend of tradition and innovation.

Our academic curriculum is complemented by a broad educational offering of cultural, sporting, personal development and service programs which the boys are encouraged to explore widely. These pursuits are considered an equally important element of their overall growth, learning and socialisation, in addition to contributing to the many happy and enjoyable store of school memories we hope they will gather during their time at Brisbane Grammar School.

- Brian R Short (Headmaster).

About Brisbane Grammar School

Opened in 1868, Brisbane Grammar School is an independent day and boarding school catering for 1400 boys from Years 6 to 12. Located on a wonderfully landscaped site overlooking the Brisbane CBD, the School is extensively resourced across its academic, student welfare and extracurricular programs. Underpinned by values of endeavour, learning, respect, leadership and community, the School’s purpose is to educate boys by nurturing their intellectual, physical and emotional well-being to become thoughtful, confident men of character who contribute to their communities.

The School’s has a proud history of outstanding and consistent academic results. With a learning culture rich in intellectual challenge, engagement and support, the School aims to   equip students with the capacity to imagine and create their futures. Brisbane Grammar School is a recognised leader in pedagogy and curriculum design, and commits substantial human, physical and technical resources to the pioneering development and delivery of 21st century teaching and learning. The newly opened Lilley Centre combines technology rich, cutting edge, flexible learning spaces with a well-resourced library and programs designed to assist students to navigate their learning in the knowledge era. The use of individual tablet PCs creates a 1:1 mobile digital learning environment which supports the School’s curriculum and learning frameworks and has resulted in exciting and innovative approaches to teaching.

In 2003, the School adapted elements of middle schooling to deliberately focus on the important transition from a primary school learning environment to the more independent learning demands of secondary schooling. Catering for boys in Years 6 to 8, the Middle School has its own distinct precinct, providing appropriate levels of both separation from and integration with the upper part of the School. An engaging, rigorous, and stimulating curriculum is delivered by specialist middle school teachers passionate about the education of adolescent boys.

Grammar’s extracurricular program plays an important role in providing the balanced educational experience which underpins the School’s philosophy. All boys are encouraged to explore the wide ranging cultural, sporting and service programs on offer. The School also operates an extensive student welfare program which supports, encourages and guides the students. An extensive personal development curriculum, including a significant student leadership program and highly developed outdoor education experiences, complement this program.
 

Trustees' Scholarships

For boys who are due to commence Year 8. Based on performance in the annual ACER Scholarship Examination and interview with the Headmaster.

Gender

Male

Key Facts

Costs

Year 10 are $20,920
Year 12 are $20,920

International Fee

Year 10 are $28,480
Year 12 are $28,480

Uniform

The uniform is compulsory and enforced

Size

1500 students,
200 up to Year 6,
1300 in secondary (Very Big)
240 in Year 12

Overview of the Curriculum

Math classes are of mixed ability.
English classes are of mixed ability.

Languages: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin

Overview of senior secondary subjects

LOTE taught to Unit 4 level: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin

Activities and Support

31 music options; 19 sporting activities; 66 other clubs or activities; 45 support staff.

Destinations

97% to university

Schools closest to Brisbane Grammar School

School name Address Type Sector Distance
Brisbane Girls Grammar SchoolTop 5 GREGORY TERRACEBrisbane 4000 Secondary Independent 0.28 km
Queensland Academy for Creative Industries MUSK AVENUEKELVIN GROVE 4059 Secondary Government 0.71 km
Petrie Terrace State School MORETON STREETPaddington 4064 Primary Government 0.74 km
Kelvin Grove State CollegeTop 50 L'ESTRANGE TERRACEKelvin Grove 4059 Combined Government 1.13 km
Brisbane Central State SchoolTop 100 ROGERS STREETSpring Hill 4000 Primary Government 1.03 km
St James College 201 BOUNDARY STREETBRISBANE 4000 Secondary Catholic 1.27 km
All Hallows' SchoolTop 10 547 ANN STREETBrisbane 4000 Combined Catholic 1.54 km
Milton State School BAYSWATER STREETMilton 4064 Primary Government 2.08 km
Music Industry College LEVEL 1, 458 WICKHAM STREETFortitude Valley 4006 Secondary Independent 2.06 km
St Ambrose's Primary School DAVIDSON STREETNewmarket 4051 Primary Catholic 2.45 km