Roma Mitchell Secondary College (RMSC) is a public state
secondary school
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in
Adelaide
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, South Australia. It was established in 2011 by combining four previous schools,
Ross Smith Secondary School
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,
Enfield High School
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, Gepps Cross Girls High and Gepps Cross Senior School. The school was named after
Dame Roma Mitchell
Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, (2 October 1913 – 5 March 2000) was an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor. She was the first woman to hold a number of positions in Australia – the country's first woman judge, the first woman to be a ...
, the first Australian woman to become a judge, a Queen's Counsel, a chancellor of an Australian university and a governor of an Australian state. The name was selected in conjunction with student and parent communities of the closing schools and the wider community. The enrolment in term 3, 2021 was approximately 1339 students.
In 2022, it was announced that the school will be expanded.
Two new buildings were constructed to facilitate year 7s, who had been moved up to high school, falling in line with the other states and territories. The co-ed campus was split into middle years (years 7-9) and senior years (years 10-12), with the girl's campus moving to the new buildings.
Principals
*Sandy Richardson (2011–2019)
*Toni Carellas (2020–present)
References
Secondary schools in Adelaide
Educational institutions established in 2011
Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia
2011 establishments in Australia
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