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The school has an 11-acre campus in Gordon, with both Junior and Senior Schools on the same site. The school has the Senior Learning Centre, the Mabel Fidler Building with a Learning Resources Centre, the Petre Innovation Centre, and the Centenary Centre with a performing arts auditorium and music facilities. The school has dance studios, a large indoor sports and recreation centre, a 25-metre heated pool with a diving facility, and outdoor tennis, basketball and netball courts. The school is a five-minute walk from Gordon train station and the bus interchange.
The school has an athletics oval and outdoor tennis, basketball and netball courts. The school has a large indoor sports and recreation centre with a multi-purpose space for indoor basketball, netball, badminton and gymnastics. The on-site 25-metre heated pool has six lanes and a diving facility. The Ravenswood Swimming Program and Club operates year-round with Learn to Swim and Squad swimming. Stage 1 of The Anne Johnstone Wellbeing and Sports Centre will include a Great Hall, a gymnasium, roof-top tennis courts and additional wellbeing spaces.
The Senior Learning Centre opened to students in 2020 and officially opened in 2021. The Mabel Fidler Building opened in 2011 and houses spaces for formal and informal learning, staff and student lounges, a cafeteria, dance studios and school reception and administration. The Petre Innovation Centre comprises eight science learning spaces including seven laboratories and a separate microscope laboratory, two science preparation rooms, a student project store and two integrated seminar rooms, with access to the SciTech courtyard. TAS Facilities include a renovated teaching space with machinery such as a CNC milling machine, four 3D printers, a laser cutter and a UV printer. The Visual Arts facilities include well-equipped studios with visiting artists and annual school exhibitions.
Dance studios support dance as an extracurricular activity on campus. The Centenary Centre hosts the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize and a variety of student Visual Arts, Design and Technology exhibitions. The Ravenswood Swimming Program and Club runs all-year-round with Learn to Swim and Squad Swimming and offers external racing opportunities. A 2024 All-Year Co-curricular Activities booklet lists the activities available.
Ravenswood School for Girls is a day and boarding school on an 11-acre campus in Gordon, Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1901, the school offers an Australian education with international programs. The Junior School (Prep–Year 6) follows an inquiry-based curriculum drawn from the IB Primary Years Programme, guided by the Reggio Emilia approach and Ravenswood's Positive Education framework. In the Senior School, students may choose the Higher School Certificate (HSC) or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP). Years 7–10 align with NSW syllabuses and the Australian Curriculum. Languages are compulsory in the IB Diploma, with options including Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Latin. Notable facilities include the Senior Learning Centre, the Mabel Fidler Building, the Petre Innovation Centre and the Centenary Centre for a performing arts auditorium and music facilities. A 25‑metre pool, an indoor sports centre and outdoor courts support sport; co-curriculars span arts, clubs, cadets and community service.
