History
The association formed in 1998 with the inaugural year of competition being 1999. All member school were former members of The Associated Schools (TAS) competition, which had been expanding rapidly, including nearly any new private school in Brisbane. As such the level of competition was declining. The majority of schools in the AIC were mainstays in the top division of the TAS competition. With the exception of St Peter's College are an all schools are boys only. At the formation of the AIC only one all-boys school remained in TAS, the now defunct Marist Brothers College Rosalie. In protest of the departure of the eight AIC schools from TAS competition, all TAS schools with a primary school attached withdrew from the CIC competition for private primary schools.
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