Sydney Grammar School

Evaluation

Sydney Grammar is the most academically proficient private school in NSW, let alone of the GPS schools, as measured (for example) by consistent performance in the Higher School Certificate.

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Supporters of the school would suggest that it provides a truly intellectual grounding. Detractors of the school however, would argue that it provides a "spoon-fed" education without true independence of thought, and that its excellent examination results are merely a reflection of the extraordinary quality of the intake. Supporters would respond that this issue is lessening with time under the current Headmaster, Dr. John Vallance. Dr. Vallance claims that the aim of the School is not exclusively to achieve high academic results in the HSC, but to prepare students for life by giving them a "liberal, humane, pre-vocational education", and that the diversity of the School's music, sport and extra-curricular programme is a testament to this philosphy.

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Irrespective of which camp is correct, there can be no doubt that Sydney Grammar is both the most extreme and the most exceptional example of its type of school in Australia.

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