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| Scotch College | |
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1 Morrison Street , , 3122 | |
| Coordinates | 37°50′3″S 145°1′46″E / 37.83417°S 145.02944°E |
| Information | |
| Type | private school, single sex, Christian day and boarding school |
| Motto | Latin: Deo Patriae Litteris (For God, for Country, and for Learning)[1] |
| Denomination | Presbyterian[3] |
| Established | 1851[2] |
| Founder | Rev. James Forbes |
| Chairman | Hamish Tadgell |
| Principal | Dr Scott Marsh |
| Chaplain | Rev. Dr. Douglas Campbell & Rev. David Assender |
| Staff | ~300 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrolment | 1,890 (P–12) |
| Houses | Bond, Davidson, Eggleston, Field, Fleming, Forbes, Gilray, Lawson, Littlejohn, Monash, Morrison, Selby-Smith |
| Colour(s) | Cardinal, gold and blue |
| Affiliation | Associated Public Schools of Victoria |
| Alumni | Old Scotch Collegians |
| Website | www |
Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spring Street, Melbourne, by the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria at the urging of James Forbes.[4] It is the oldest extant secondary school in Victoria[2][5] and celebrated its sesquicentenary in 2001.
Scotch is a founding member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS),[6] and is affiliated with the International Boys' Schools Coalition (IBSC),[7] the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),[8] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA),[5] the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),[3] and the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.[9] The School is a member of the Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools.
An investigation by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2021 found that Scotch is one of Australia's richest schools,[10] and had the largest financial investment portfolio of any Australian school (valued at the time at more than $144 million).[11]
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- ^ "How Australia's top private schools are growing richer". 17 June 2021.
- ^ "Top private schools build up multimillion-dollar investment portfolios". 18 June 2021.