The city of

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...

, Australia, has a number of schools.

History

The first schools in Geelong were established when the town was settled from the 1850s. Many of these schools remain open today, now joined by a number of new schools opened from the 1950s when the population of Geelong grew after World War II. HRH King Charles III, spent two terms at the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School in 1966. The late 1980s and 1990s saw changes to the school system, with new secondary colleges such as Catholic Regional College and Western Heights Secondary College were created from smaller

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

s. It was also at this time that a number of technical schools were closed, and

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...

s were closed by the Kennett State Government. Tertiary education began with the

Gordon Institute of Technology The Gordon Institute of TAFE is the Technical and Further Education institute predominantly servicing the wider Geelong area. The Gordon opened in 1887 and celebrated 130 years of providing education in 2017. The Gordon provides education ...

in 1888. Reform of the

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sector resulted in the creation of Deakin University in the 1970s. Today over 40,000 primary and secondary students are enrolled in schools in Geelong, with another 27,000 students a year enrolled in tertiary and further education courses.City of Greater Geelong: Top 10 Reasons to Move to Geelong
/ref> Western Heights Secondary College will be split from a three-campus school in western Geelong to a single-campus school in Vines Road in the coming years. Northern Bay P–12 College was formed in 2011 as a result of a merger of nine schools into one multi-campus College. This process of regeneration of the Corio and Norlane government schools began in 2006 and was driven by the nine school communities to ensure young people and their families in the northern suburbs of Geelong had access to high-quality education in world-class facilities.

Primary education

Secondary education

Public

Private

Defunct and merged

* Catholic Regional College Geelong (into St Ignatius College) *

Chanel College (Geelong) Chanel College was a Roman Catholic school for boys in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1958, it closed in 1999. The site was later purchased by the Geelong Baptist College. History The school was founded in 1958 by the Marist Fathers, ...

(closed) * North Geelong Primary School (closed) * Goold College (into Catholic Regional College) * Geelong East Technical School (had changed name to) James Harrison Secondary College (merged into Newcomb Secondary College) *

Morongo Girls' College Morongo Girls' College was a Presbyterian school for girls, founded in 1920 on Bell Post Hill near Geelong, Australia, on the site of an original homestead (called ''Morongo''). The founding principal was Gertrude Pratt BA, the second princip ...

(closed) * St Mary's Technical School (into Catholic Regional College) * The Hermitage (into Geelong Grammar School) * Western Heights Secondary College (Barton Campus) (into Western Heights Secondary College Minerva Campus) * Flinders Peak Secondary College (into Northern Bay College) * Rosewall Primary School (into Northern Bay College) * Norlane High School (into Northern Bay College) * Corio South Primary School (into Northern Bay College) * Corio Primary School (into Northern Bay College) * Corio Bay Senior College (formerly Corio Technical School) (into Northern Bay College) * North Shore Primary School (into Northern Bay College) * Norlane West Primary School (into Northern Bay College) * Corio West Primary School (into Northern Bay College in 2011)

Tertiary education

* Diversitat Institute of Education and Training Australia – Geelong Campus * Deakin University – Geelong and Waurn Ponds Campuses * Gordon Institute of TAFE * Victorian Fitness Academy – Geelong Campus * Marcus Oldham Farm Management College * Reformed Theological College * Diversitat Training

References

External links

Services In Geelong – Schools
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* Geelong-related lists