Ipswich Grammar School is an independent

Independent school

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, non-denominational, day

Day school

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 and boarding school

Boarding school

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 for boys, located in Ipswich

Ipswich, Queensland

Ipswich is a city in South-East Queensland, Australia. Situated along the Bremer River Valley approximately 40 kilometres away from the state's capital Brisbane. The suburb by the same name forms the city's Central Business District and administrative centre...

, a city situated on the Bremer River in South East

South East Queensland

South East Queensland is a region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains approximately two-thirds of the state population...

 Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

Australia

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. The school is sited on the eponymous Grammar School Hill, with its original buildings occupying the crown of the hill.

Founded in 1863, Ipswich Grammar was the first secondary school

Secondary school

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 established in the colony of Queensland.
Today the school

School

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 operates a P to 12 educational model, offering preparatory

Preparatory school (UK)

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, primary

Primary education

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 and secondary education

Secondary education

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 to approximately 1,080 students, including 105 boarders.

Ipswich Grammar School is affiliated with the Australian Boarding Schools Assoociation (ABSA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia

Junior School Heads Association of Australia

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 (JSHAA), Independent Schools Queensland (AISQ), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), and is a founding member of the Great Public Schools Association of Queensland Inc. (GPS).
Ipswich Grammar School was the first of ten grammar schools established under the Grammar Schools Act

Grammar Schools Act

The Grammar Schools Act 1860 was passed by Queensland's first parliament in 1860 and allowed for the establishment of a grammar school in any town where £1000 could be raised locally. Between the years 1863 and 1892, ten grammar schools were opened under the auspices of the Act...

, passed by Queensland's first parliament

Parliament of Queensland

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 in 1860.