IT may no longer be on its original site or bear its first name, but the Scots School Albury reeks of tradition and is committed to top notch teaching.
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Those qualities have been celebrated over the past three days with the Perry Street institution marking its 150th anniversary.
Hundreds of former students travelled from across Australia for a formal dinner on Friday night, before reminiscing at the school on Saturday and attending a chapel service on Sunday.
Having begun in central Albury in Olive Street in 1866 as Albury Grammar, the school has been a chameleon, at different stages it has been under private ownership and boys-only.
But since 1972, with the merger of Albury Grammar School and Woodstock Presbyterian Girls' School the classrooms have catered to both genders under the Scots School banner.
The tenets of faith and learning, which translate to the school's Latin motto Fides et Literis, have guided the organisation.
They underline the intertwining of religion and learning but it is the culture that springs from those two aspects that is crucial.
It is particularly so with the emphasis on boarding at Scots.
The welfare of students living on campus is important and the approach to boarders has changed over the decades in line with societal shifts.
"We have more flexible models than we used to have and I think there's more people who may board a couple of nights a week, who may live an hour of two out, so they can go to say football practice or a production rehearsal at night they can board overnight, have dinner and go home on the bus other days," Scots School principal Peggy Mahy says.
There has also been a shift in the education landscape around the Scots School, with the emergence of Trinity College in Thurgoona having increased competition for the dollars of private-leaning parents.
In the context of boarding, Ms Mahy said "our goal is to make that as affordable and accessible to as many people as possible", but that could also apply to general tuition.
Certainly, like any body, the Scots School is facing challenges but it is a marvellous feat to survive and flourish over 150 years.
Who could imagine 150 years ago going from ink wells to the internet and the school band jetting around the world to play?
It's worthy of the sesquicentenary fanfare.
