Canberra Girls Grammar School

Canberra Girls Grammar School (CGGS) is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, located in Deakin, a suburb of Canberra, the capital of Australia. Established in 1926 as St Gabriel's School, by the Church of England It has a non selective enrolment policy and caters for approximately 1,300 students, with co education from Early Learning (preschool) to Year 3, and girls only from Years 4 to Year 12. Boarding facilities are available on the Senior Campus for up to 80 students in Years 7 to 12. the Associated Southern Colleges (ASC), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS). |
|1934–1937
|Bessie Tomson Forster
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|May 1937 – 1947
|Una Mitchell May
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|1947
|(Acting) Rafay Abbas
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|1947–1962
|Isabel Masters
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|1962–1965
|Mavis June Prater
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|1966–1970
|Evelyn Heath
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|1971–1973
|Donald V. Selth
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|1974–1979
|Jennifer Shaw
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|1980–1984
|Helen Granowski
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|1984
|(Acting) Elizabeth McKay
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|1985–1999
|Elizabeth McKay
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|2000–2004
|Alyson Groom
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|2003–2004
|(Acting) Elizabeth Gilbert
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|2004
|(Acting) Jane Pelvin
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|2005–2008
|Susan Just
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|2009
|(Acting) Bruce Handley
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|2009–2010
|Susan Just
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|2010
|(Acting) Bruce Handley
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|2011–2018
|Anne Coutts
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|2019–2021
|Anna Owen
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|2022 Terms 1 to 3
|(Acting) Julie Jorritsma
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|Start Term 4, 2022
|Terrie Jones
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Canberra Girls Grammar School is located over two campuses (primary and secondary) in the inner Canberra suburb of Deakin, Combined, the campuses are in size, and include an indoor heated swimming centre, gymnasia, sports courts, playing fields, an aquatic centre on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, and buildings catering for the performing arts, art and textiles. The School's most recent additions include a music centre with an adjoining 1,000 seat hall. 2006 saw improvements made to the junior school with the opening of six new classrooms, two music rooms and practice rooms and in 2010 the addition of a new multi purpose hall, administration block, front office and staff offices. In the senior campus a new administration block, drive through and entrance was built in 2011 and a new award winning science wing completed in 2012.

Canberra Girls Grammar School was authorised to offer the International Baccalaureate World School Diploma Programme on 21 July 2010. The school was also authorised to offer the Primary Years Programme on 15 September 2011.

The junior school curriculum is based upon the New South Wales Department of Education Board of Studies syllabus. It also has many co curricular studies.

Students in the senior school (Years 7 to 12) are prepared for the ACT Year 12 Certificate, as mandated by the Board of Senior Secondary Studies. A high percentage of students who graduate with a Year 12 Certificate also obtain an ATAR and go on to study at university. In 2007, of the 150 students awarded a Year 12 certificate, 91% were awarded Tertiary Education Statements. Also that year, the median ATAR gained by students was 86 compared with the average of students from all across ACT colleges of 79. Students from Canberra Girls Grammar School had the second highest median ATAR of the ACT colleges that year, and in 2009 they achieved the highest score. 92% of students from the school who were awarded Tertiary Education Statements in 2007 scored over 65 for their ATAR compared with 79% of all ACT students. Students in Years 11 and 12 are also given the option to study the International Baccalaureate instead of the BSSS curriculum.