Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar

KTJ's 80-acre campus in Mantin mixes traditional Malaysian architecture with modern buildings. Facilities include an art, design technology and music building, dance and drama studios, music studios, a renovated library and conference space, a Sixth Form centre and an auditorium. For sport there is a climbing wall, a gym, a multipurpose hall with six badminton courts, basketball, netball, tennis and squash courts, football, cricket and hockey pitches, an athletics field and three swimming pools. The primary campus, opened in 2013, has its own play areas and a children's pool.

Boarding is central to KTJ. There are eight boarding houses, one for juniors and seven for seniors, with rooms shared by up to eight juniors or four seniors and twin or single rooms for Upper Sixth. Each house has games areas, a cinema room, a kitchenette and prep rooms, and houseparents, tutors and matrons look after boarders. Weekdays combine lessons, co-curricular sessions and evening prep, and weekends have house activities and events.

A Learning Support team plans strategies and interventions so that students with additional needs can access the curriculum, working with staff across the school. Students who need help with English get EAL support in small group classes, in-class subject support or one-to-one lessons. Trained counsellors are available on campus, and every student has a mentor who follows their progress through an individual learning plan.

More than 100 co-curricular activities are offered across the arts, service, science, technology and sport, and the majority are covered by tuition, with a handful of specialist options like golf or yoga charged separately. A 'Beyond the Classroom' programme of trips, which ran 204 trips in one recent year, includes FOBISIA sports events and overseas tours.