How do you research Wilderness School? Treat this page as orientation. Wilderness School is listed as a girls boarding campus at Medindie in SA, with a published Independent affiliation. Founded year, year levels and the official website below are public facts we could verify at the time of writing. Houses open, pause and change year levels — ask admissions whether the house still boards the year you need.
What this listing is not: a league table, a fee quote, or a promise that a place exists. Sibling campuses with similar names in other states are different schools. Use the official website, then request this year’s boarding handbook and the current tuition-plus-boarding schedule. If the student would enrol from overseas, confirm CRICOS registration on the government register, not on this directory.
Wilderness School is a girls’ school in Medindie, inner Adelaide, founded in 1884. The archived boarding URL is preserved. Ask admissions whether a house is open this year.
Related: Adelaide boarding.
Before you contact Wilderness School: a research checklist
A directory profile can tell you where a school is and what kind of boarding it lists. It cannot tell you whether the house suits your child this year. These are the questions we suggest every family puts to admissions in writing, so the answers can be compared side by side with other schools on your shortlist.
- Boarding years and places. Which year levels currently board, which entry years have the most places, and how the waitlist works.
- Full or weekly board. Which nights are included, what happens on closed weekends and exeats, and whether occasional or casual boarding is offered. See weekly vs full boarding.
- House culture. Ask whether the girls’ house shares weekend activities with a brother school, and how younger and older boarders are mixed. Ask how many boarders typically stay in on a weekend.
- Pastoral care. Who is on duty overnight, how health and wellbeing are handled, and how the house communicates with parents. Our homesickness guide covers what good support looks like.
- Current fee schedule. Request this year’s tuition, boarding, levies and extras in writing — this directory does not reprint dollar figures. Read how boarding fees work.
- Financial help. Ask about scholarships and bursaries, and — if you live in a remote area — whether families commonly claim the Australian Government’s Assistance for Isolated Children payments.
- Travel. Term dates, airport or coach transfers, and how students travel home from Adelaide and regional SA.
- Applications. Deadlines, interviews, reports and testing. Our application guide walks through the usual steps.
New to boarding? Start with the parent guide to boarding school in Australia, then come back to this profile with your questions ready.
Due diligence
Checking Wilderness School with official sources
Before you shortlist any boarding school, it is worth confirming a few things with the bodies that regulate it rather than relying on marketing material or directories, including this one. Non-government schools in SA are registered through Education Standards Board SA, which publishes information on registration and compliance. Ask Wilderness School how its boarding program is governed, which staff supervise boarders overnight and at weekends, and how it applies the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.
Many schools also refer to the Australian Standard for boarding (AS 5725) and to guidance from the Australian Boarding Schools Association. If your child would study on a student visa, check that the school appears on the CRICOS register for the courses you need. Fees, places and scholarship terms change each year, so request the current schedule directly from the school and compare like with like using our guide to how boarding fees work.
- Region
- Adelaide
- Gender pathway
- Girls’ boarding schools in Australia
- Official website
- www.wilderness.sa.edu.au/
- Historical URL
/boarding/wilderness-school.html301s to this profile so archived citations stay reachable.- Fees
- Request the current tuition and boarding schedule from admissions. See how fees work.