page_title: The Armidale School
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: The Armidale School / Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: Napier Waller historian Dr Bronwyn Hughes inspects the Memorial Windows in the TAS Assembly Hall
context_page_description: The Armidale School is an independent Anglican co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day and boarding school, located in Armidale, on the New England Tablelands of northern New South Wales, Australia. Administration of the schools is formalised as a company limited by guarantee that operates under the Corporations Act.
  Founded in 1894 as the New England Proprietary School, The Armidale School has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 640 students, including 250 boarders from Years 6 to 12. TAS has classes of students in Transition, Junior School for children in Kindergarten to Year 5 which offers the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program, a Middle School for those in Years 6 to 8 and a Senior School from Years 9 to 12. In 1993, The Armidale School became the first school in Australia to provide internet access for its students.
  The School is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, and is one of only three Round Square schools in the state of New South Wales.
context_section_description: The Armidale School is situated on a single 18 hectares (44 acres) campus in Armidale, a university city on the New England Tablelands of New South Wales, midway between Sydney and Brisbane. The school features a mix of historic and modern buildings, all of which reflect design elements of the outstanding original building designed by noted architect Sir John Sulman in 1892. Other notable buildings are the 1902 Chapel, designed by Cyril Blacket, and the War Memorial Assembly Hall, which features three magnificent stained glass windows designed by Napier Waller.
  
  The facilities of the school include the Michael Hoskins Creative Arts Centre, which incorporates a 240-seat performing arts theatre, drama classrooms and visual arts studios. The centre is used by various local and visiting performing arts organisations including as the 'home' of the Armidale Drama & Music Society. Other facilities include a heated indoor swimming pool, rifle range, cattle stud, chapel, gymnasium, library, music centre, computer rooms, climbing wall, weights room, an indoor cricket centre, several indoor and outdoor basketball courts, seven tennis courts, rugby and soccer fields, and cricket wickets.
caption: Napier Waller historian Dr Bronwyn Hughes inspects the Memorial Windows in the TAS Assembly Hall.
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