Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School is an academically selective

Selective school (New South Wales)

Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, that have accepted their students based upon their academic merit...

, day

Day school

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 and boarding

Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...

, Public high school

High school

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 for boys, located at Calala

Calala, New South Wales

Calala is a small suburb of the Northern New South Wales city of Tamworth, administered by Tamworth Regional Council.The area is 4.5 kilometres, from the CBD of Tamworth and is connected to the city by Calala Lane, the main road, which often becomes flooded in times of heavy rain, usually...

, a small suburb of Tamworth

Tamworth, New South Wales

Tamworth is a city in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Peel River, Tamworth, which contains an estimated population of 47,595 people, is the major regional centre for southern New England and in the local government area of Tamworth Regional Council. The city...

, in northern New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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. It is the only public agricultural high school for boys in Australia.

Established in 1939, Farrer is unique in Australian education, being one of the few agricultural secondary school

Secondary school

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s catering for both boarding and day students. The school currently enrols approximately 610 students from Years 7 to 12, including 360 boarders, making it the third largest boarding school in the State.