Roma Mitchell Secondary College (RMSC) is a public state

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) ...

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

, South Australia. It was established in 2011 by combining four previous schools,

Ross Smith Secondary School Ross Smith Secondary School was a high school in Northfield, South Australia. The original Northfield High School was opened in 1968. The School changed its name to the Ross Smith Secondary School in 1996 as a result of the amalgamation of Nail ...

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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 {{SouthAustralia-school-stub