Knox Grammar School
Knox Grammar School is an independent Uniting Church day and boarding school for boys, located in Wahroonga, New South Wales, an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1924 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia as an all-boys school, and named after John Knox. The school has since grown, branching out into a large Senior School and a Preparatory School, enrolling approximately 2900 students. The school also caters for approximately 160 boarding students from Years 7 to 12.
| Knox Grammar School | |
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| Address | |
2 Borambil Street Wahroonga , New South Wales , 2076 Australia | |
| Coordinates | 33°43′24″S 151°7′11″E |
| Information | |
| Type | Independent, day & boarding |
| Motto | Latin: Virile Agitur (The Manly Thing Is Being Done) |
| Denomination | Uniting Church |
| Established | 1924 |
| Founder | John Gilmore, William McIlrath, Robert Gillespie and Andrew Reid |
| Chairman | Simon Rothery |
| Headmaster | Scott James |
| Chaplain | Rev Dr Rosalie Clarke MacLarty |
| Employees | ~278 |
| Years | K–12 |
| Gender | Male |
| Enrolment | ~3,170 (2021) |
| Colour(s) | Black and blue |
| Rival | Barker College |
| Affiliation | Combined Associated Schools |
| Website | www.knox.nsw.edu.au |
Knox is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), and is a founding member of the Combined Associated Schools (CAS).
In January 2015 the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced it would conduct a public investigation into how Knox Grammar had responded to allegations of inappropriate conduct and sexual abuse by teachers towards students between 1970 and 2012. The Royal Commission found in September 2016 that the school's principal between 1969 and 1998 had covered up allegations of sexual abuse made against teachers.