Academic Results

Toowoomba Grammar School maintains a balanced, academic curriculum with an achievement orientation. The boys are encouraged and expected to aim as high as possible in their academic studies. The vast majority of students aim for university entry in their chosen area of study. The focus is on academic endeavour irrespective of academic grades achieved because, as educators, all we can ask is for the students to reach the highest level of which they are capable. If a boy has applied himself to the fullest then we can ask no more of him.

At Toowoomba Grammar School academic effort is acknowledged and rewarded. From the very early stages of a boy's schooling with us, he is made aware of the importance of hard work and a disciplined, focussed approach to study.

Extremely pleasing academic standards amongst the boys are achieved every year due to the combination of:

talented and committed teachers, teaching in their specialist areas
all teachers have made a conscious decision to teach in an all-boys' school and understand boys, their interests, and how best they learn
parents who value education
a structured and disciplined learning environment
co-operative behaviour in the classroom is expected
teaching methods and the curriculum are designed to be relevant and appropriate to the needs of boys
an environment where the boys are encouraged to do the best they possibly can
well resourced facilities

As a general rule, the school would expect twice the State average in the percentage of our students gaining an Overall Position (OP) 1 - 2. Roughly one Year 12 student in every four should achieve an OP in the range 1 - 4.

Whilst the school acknowledges the importance of OP results, we view quality education as comprising far more than a simple end-of-year OP score. As a school we continue to seek to develop, from the very commencement of a boy's education with us, those personal qualities deemed to be so important and decidedly far more so than a simple OP score; namely his qualities of honesty, integrity, perseverance, compassion, humility, resilience, ability to work with others, tolerance and so on.