Melbourne High School
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Melbourne High School is a government-funded single-sex academically selective secondary day school for boys, located in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1905, the school caters for boys from Year 9 to Year 12.[1]
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Melbourne High School | |
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Location | |
Australia | |
Coordinates | 37°50′8″S 144°59′40″E |
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Type | Government-funded single-sex academically selective secondary day school |
Motto | Honour the work |
Established | 1905; 119 years ago (1905) |
Founder | Frank Tate |
Sister school | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
Principal | Tony Mordini |
Years | 9–12 |
Gender | Boys |
Enrolment | 1,364 (2021) |
Colour(s) | Maroon, green, and black |
Mascot | The Duke |
Newspaper | Ours (weekly newsletter) The Sentinel (student magazine) |
Yearbook | The Unicorn |
Website | www |
The school was founded in 1905 as the first co-educational state secondary school in Victoria. Melbourne High School was originally located in Spring Street in Melbourne. In 1927, the boys and girls split, with the boys moving to a new school at Forrest Hill in the inner city suburb of South Yarra which retained the name Melbourne High School.[2] The girls eventually moved to the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School on Kings Way, Melbourne.
In 2010, The Age reported that Melbourne High School ranked equal tenth among Australian schools based on the number of alumni who had received a top[clarification needed] Order of Australia honour.[3]