Hello to you all,
It’s a busy week here at Boarding Schools Expo HQ – we’re recently back from Emerald in QLD where we held our first event for central and northern QLD. What a fantastic response we had – the Live Q&A was certainly a highlight. This week we’re in Dubbo – 40 schools from across NSW and QLD. Bigger than ever before.
Our events were established 21 years ago because we know that choosing a boarding school is one of the most significant decisions you’ll make for your child. You want them to feel known, valued, and gently encouraged to grow into their best selves. That’s where Ravenswood, on Sydney’s leafy North Shore, stands apart if you’ve got a daughter to consider.
For 90 years, Ravenswood has offered girls from rural, regional, and remote communities a place to truly belong. Their boutique, home-like boarding community is small by design – where warmth, connection and genuine care underpin every day.
Under strong, steady leadership, boarders flourish personally and academically, supported by an award-winning team that has earned national recognition time and again.
If you’ve ever wondered whether there’s a school that blends high-quality education with heart, Ravenswood is worth your serious consideration.
And there’s no better time to meet them than this Friday 16th and Saturday 17th May in Dubbo. Come and speak with the Ravenswood team face to face, and see for yourself why generations of families have trusted them with their daughters’ boarding journey.
Ravenswood. 90 years strong—and still leading with care. Come along and meet them this week if you’re in the region.
Igniting potential, inspiring passion & purpose
Ravenswood’s Home Away from Home
Since 1901, Ravenswood has embraced a strong tradition of educational excellence, developing young women of purpose who are empowered and inspired by the highest quality of teaching and learning experiences.
A Uniting Church School located on leaty grounds over 11 acres in Gordon on Sydney’s North Shore, Ravenswood is the only school on the upper North Shore to offer students a choice between the Higher School Certificate and the International Baccalaureate Diploma.
In 2025, Ravenswood celebrates 90 years of boarding. Nestled in a heritage house, the Ravenswood Residential College (RRC) is a home away from home for boarders, providing a caring, family-oriented environment, cross-year-level connections and mentoring for up to 50 boarders. Recognised thrice for excellence at the Australian Education Awards for Boarding School of the Year (2022, 2024, 2025), the RRC provides boarders with acclaimed academic and innovative Positive Education and wellbeing programs, and a vast selection of co-curricular activities to ensure Boarders are strongly engaged and feel very much at home. Ravenswood offers a nurturing and supportive ‘sisterhood’ environment for boarders to thrive academically, socially,
physically and emotionally.
LEADING WITH DISTINCTION
Together as One
Ravenswood School for Girls is a multi award-winning school.
It has been named on The Educator magazine’s 5-Star Innovative School list for the sixth time in seven years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024); and won Excellence Awards for Best Student Wellbeing Program (2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025) and for Boarding House of the Year (2022, 2024 and 2025).
Ravenswood also won Best Use of Technology at the 2024 Australian Education Awards.
WHERE BOARDERS FLOURISH
Positive Education & Wellbeing
Boarders at Ravenswood embrace the school’s trailblazing principles of Positive Education and Wellbeing.
Its innovative boarding wellbeing programs, wellbeing rooms and reflection areas provide a unique opportunity for Boarders to thrive. Boarders participate in daily mindful activities such as mindful reflection time, and take opportunities to practise gratitude through creating and ‘filling buckets’ with messages of encouragement and appreciation.
LIFE AT RRC
Ravenswood Residential College (RRC)
Nestled in a heritage house, it is a home away from home for students from the wider Sydney area, country NSW, interstate and overseas.
Offering a safe, caring ‘boutique’ environment for 50 students in Years 7 to 12, the RRC nurtures cross-year-level connections and mentoring that builds a deep culture of respect, positivity, and a supportive ‘sisterhood’.
Thank you to Ravenswood, Sydney, NSW for showing us around their school. As always, enjoy the resources on our website helping you and your family make decisions about boarding school & supporting you once you’re there.