Tara Anglican School for Girls

Tara Anglican School for Girls is an independent Anglican day and boarding school for girls located in North Parramatta, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Established in 1897, Tara has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 800 students from Pre- Kindergarten to Year 12, including 40 boarders from Years 5 to 12.The school is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, and IGSSA, the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia, the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia, and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools .Tara's 2010 HSC results ranked the school the number one non-selective school in Sydney's west. In the 2007 Higher School Certificate, the Sydney Morning Herald named Tara the best performing independent school in Sydney’s north-west.HistoryTraces its origins back to 1897, where it is thought to have started with the opening of St Ronan's School, a Christian, co-educational, primary day school in George Street, Parramatta, by Mary Elizabeth "Joan" Waugh. In 1898, Waugh moved St Ronan's to an already existing school, The Cedars, in Western Road, Parramatta, in partnership with its incumbent principal, a Mrs Bond. From here, in keeping with Waugh's Anglican vision, the partnership with Bond was dissolved and the school moved to St John's Parish Hall, Parramatta, in 1902.