Macleod College is a co-educational, Prep to Year Twelve school located on the corner of May and Carwarp Streets, Macleod

Macleod, Victoria

Macleod is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the cities of Banyule and Darebin. At the 2006 Census, Macleod had a population of 8083...

, Melbourne, Australia. The College grew out of the merger of Macleod High School and Macleod Primary School in 2000. It has two sister schools, the Geschwister Scholl Gymansium (GSG) in Düsseldorf

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, Germany

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 and the Hauibei Experimental School in the Anhui

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 province in China

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and has an international student program.

Macleod College is next to the Macleod railway station and Macleod kindergarten. It shares facilities with the adjacent Banyule NETS stadium. The College has over thirty feeder primary schools and many students come from areas where Macleod is not their closest school.

In 2010 Macleod College obtained funds through the National School Pride Program to renovate its Year Seven area to an open-plan design and the Primary Schools for the 21st Century program to build a new wing for Grade 3-6 students.

Music Program

Macleod College has a strong history of music education. It was established as one of four Victorian specialist music schools in the 1970’s and continues to maintain high standards of music performance. One in five students at Macleod College are currently involved in the music performance program.

Macleod College students regularly:

• are among the top VCE Music students in the state; achieving scores of 40+ and receiving invitations to perform at Top Class events.
• receive their first preference at tertiary institutions such as Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), West Australian Performing Arts (WAPA), Monash University and Ballarat Academy of Performing Arts.
• perform at competitions and festivals such as Generations in Jazz and Royal South Street Eisteddfod.

VET Hairdressing

Macleod College has a dedicated hairdressing training salon to deliver the VET hairdressing course. Eleven schools in the Northern Metropolitan zone send students to Macleod College to do the course.

Student Destinations

The Department of Education's On Track data shows that 85% of Macleod College students that completed Year 12 in 2009 applied for either University or TAFE/VET places, of those 64% were offered a University place and 32% were offered a TAFE/VET course place. In April/May 2010 80% of ex students were enrolled in a University or TAFE/VET course (or had deferred) and 15% were an apprentice/trainee or employed.