About Abbotsleigh Senior School

Abbotsleigh Senior School is a Pre K to Year 12 day and Year 7-12 boarding school for girls, with a reputation for excellence for more than 130 years. It is an independent Anglican school. Each girl is encouraged to develop her potential in a caring Christian environment by fostering her pursuit of personal and academic excellence.

By providing a broad, well-balanced education, the school helps each girl to develop both independence and interdependence, an appreciation of diversity, and a philosophy of life that will enable her to be a courageous, constructive, and compassionate world citizen with a will to serve.

Abbotsleigh Senior School has about 170 boarders from Years 7 to 12. Approximately three-quarters of our boarders come from country and regional NSW, with a sprinkling of students from overseas and greater Sydney.

The senior boarding residence at Abbotsleigh Senior School, Wheeldon House, features 64 single bedrooms for students with an ensuite between two bedrooms. There are study nooks and warm common areas for both the Year 11 and Year 12 girls.

Located on 12 hectares of land on the leafy North Shore of Sydney, the campus has a rich history as well as state-of-the-art facilities that provide students with the best possible educational opportunities. Features of the Senior School campus include the Abbotsleigh Research Centre, Aquatic Centre, concert and assembly halls, the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, gymnasiums, indoor sports hall plus turf and all-weather playing fields.

At Abbotsleigh, we are committed to academic excellence, wellbeing, and the fostering of positive relationships and service. Believing in educating ‘the whole girl’, our dedicated and talented teachers aim for every girl to experience rich and deep learning both within and beyond the classroom.

Our girls love to learn and love to be involved and to participate in a myriad of activities from sport, music, dance, and drama, debating, public speaking to SRC, robotics, social justice, and special interest clubs, CRU, and so much more.

We teach our girls to ask questions, grapple with ideas, debate, take risks, and reflect on their learning. However, this is not ‘surface level’ learning, or learning at ‘face value’. Abbotsleigh girls learn how to delve deeply, solve difficult problems, and develop sophisticated, conceptual understanding.

Abbotsleigh’s supportive environment encourages our girls to be resilient, independent, and to strive and reach for her true potential to achieve her personal best.

Abbotsleigh Senior School has a variety of scholarships, including scholarships for Indigenous students. For further details, please visit our website or contact the Registrar.