St Catherine's School, Waverley

St Catherine's School Sydney
The college in 2013
Address
26 Albion Street

Waverley, Sydney
,
2024

Australia
Coordinates33°54′15″S 151°15′19″E / 33.90417°S 151.25528°E / -33.90417; 151.25528
Information
Former nameSt Catherine's Clergy Daughters School
TypePrivate Anglican single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding
DenominationAnglicanism
Established1856 (1856)
FounderJane Sophia Barker
ChairmanSimon Roberts
HeadmistressJudith Poole
Staff~120
YearsK12
GenderGirls
Enrolmentc.1,000
Area2 hectares (5 acres)
Campus typeSuburban
NicknameSt Cath's
Affiliations
Websitewww.stcatherines.nsw.edu.au

St Catherine's School (commonly referred to as St Cath's) is a private Anglican junior and senior day and boarding school, located in Waverley, an eastern suburb of Sydney, Australia.

Established in 1856 as a school for the daughters of clergy, St Catherine's is the oldest Anglican girls' school in Australia. It is also the oldest private girls' school in Australia. It is a non-selective school, and currently caters for about 1,000 girls from Year K to Year 12, including 70 boarders.

The school is affiliated with the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), and is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools.

St Catherine's has been reviewed by the Good Schools Guide International.