Lourdes Hill College

Lourdes Hill College
Lourdes Hill College, seen from New Farm across the Brisbane River
Location
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Hawthorne, Brisbane, Queensland

Australia
Coordinates27°28′8.94″S 153°3′30.33″E / 27.4691500°S 153.0584250°E / -27.4691500; 153.0584250
Information
TypeGood Samaritan Education secondary day school
MottoLatin: Respice Stellam Voca Mariam
(Look to the Star and Call Upon Mary[1])
Religious affiliation(s)Good Samaritan Education
DenominationRoman Catholic
Established1916; 108 years ago (1916)[2]
FoundersSisters of the Good Samaritan
PrincipalKay Gleeson
Years7–12
GenderGirls
Enrolmentc. 1,000
Houses
  • Beck  
  • Cullen  
  • D'Arcy  
  • Healy  
  • Hendricks  
  • McKee  
  • Lee  
  • Roche  
Colour(s)Silver, purple and white    
Affiliations
Websitelhc.qld.edu.au
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Lourdes Hill College is a Good Samaritan Education secondary day school for girls, located in the inner-eastern Brisbane suburb of Hawthorne, Queensland, Australia. The college also operated as a boarding school until its boarding facilities were closed in 2011.

The college was named after Lourdes in France, where Mary is said to have appeared to a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous.[1] It was founded in 1916 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of Saint Benedict,[2] and as of 2023 caters for approximately 1200 students from Years 7 to 12 (11 to 18 years of age).

Lourdes Hill is one of a network of 10 schools under the care of Good Samaritan Education, a church entity set up to take over the educational mission of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. The college was incorporated by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 1986 as a Company Limited by Guarantee.[3] It is affiliated with the Queensland Catholic Education Commission, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),[4] and the Brisbane Schoolgirls Sporting Association (BSGSA).[5] The school was previously affiliated with the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA).[6]

  1. ^ a b "Message from the Principal". Welcome. Lourdes Hill College. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Address90yrs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Incorporated Colleges". Colleges. Sisters of the Good Samaritan. 2005. Archived from the original on 24 September 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  4. ^ "AHISA Schools". Queensland. Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia. 2008. Archived from the original on 13 February 2008. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  5. ^ "Prospectus" (PDF). Enrolments. Lourdes Hill College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
  6. ^ "Lourdes Hill College". Schools – Queensland. The Australian Boarding Schools' Association. 2005. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2008.