Editing Education in Australia (section)

== Day and boarding schools ==
{{See also|List of boarding schools in Australia}}
In Australia, both government and non-government schools operate [[Day school|day]] and [[Boarding school|boarding]] schools. {{as of|2019}}, of the 10,584 registered schools operating in Australia, approximately 250 schools (or less than 2.5 per cent) were boarding schools.<ref name=ABSA/> Some Australian schools offer [[single-sex education|gender-specific]] (boys' [approximately 21 per cent] or girls' [approximately 28 per cent]) and [[mixed-sex education|co-educational]] boarding schools (51 per cent);<ref name=ABSA/> with multi-modal options, such as full-time boarding and part-time boarding (for example, going home on the weekends) offered by some schools.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.boardingschools.com.au|title=Australian Boarding Schools|publisher=Australian Education Network|date=2019|access-date=5 September 2019|archive-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905110122/http://www.boardingschools.com.au/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Some specialist education schools, such as [[Australian Ballet|The Australian Ballet School]], offer boarding facilities.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.australianballetschool.com.au/pages/boarding-programme|title=Boarding Programme|work=The Australian Ballet School|publisher=[[Australian Ballet]]|date=n.d.|access-date=5 September 2019|archive-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905110121/https://www.australianballetschool.com.au/pages/boarding-programme|url-status=dead}}</ref> The largest peak body for boarding schools in Australia, the Australian Boarding Schools Association, claimed that, in 2017, there were 22,815 students in boarding schools covered by the association, an increase from 19,870 in 2014.<ref name=ABSA>{{cite news|author=Abernethy, Mark|title=Australia's boarding schools reflecting the values of the community|url=https://www.afr.com/companies/reflecting-the-values-of-the-community-20180611-h117y6|work=[[Financial Review]]|date=28 June 2019|access-date=5 September 2019}}</ref>