Ashbury College is an independent day and boarding school located in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1891 and moved to its current venue in 1910. Previously, it occupied what now houses Canadian Senate offices. It is an International Baccalaureate World School, a member of the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools, and a member of Round Square. The school currently enrolls approximately 550 senior (grades 9-12) and 150 junior (grades 4-8) students. The current Head of School is Norman Southward, with Kendal Young directing the Junior School and Gary Godkin as the Head of Senior School. Ashbury College is an independent private school which offers a joint Ontario High School Diploma and Ashbury College Diploma, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma and International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma. Originally a single-gender boys school, Ashbury began accepting girls in 1982. Currently, the male/female student proportion of the Senior School is 55%/45%, but is becoming increasingly equal. The campus is 12 acres (48,562.277 m2) in Rockcliffe Park. Tuition fees for the 2015-2016 school year are $22,440 for day students and $55,300 for boarding students. There are 100 boarders yearly from approximately 30 countries throughout the world. Notable alumni include John Turner, Canada's seventeenth Prime Minister and Stockwell Day, the first leader of the now defunct Canadian Alliance and later a cabinet minister. Other alumni include Ben Barry, founder of the modeling agency Ben Barry Agency Inc.; Canadian war artist and heraldry expert Alan Beddoe, actor Matthew Perry, journalist Adrian Harewood, and Roya Shams, a student who, with the help of Toronto Star employees, was able to flee Kandahar, Afghanistan after Roya received from Taliban threats after the murder of her father, an Afghan police commander.