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St Catherine's School, Toorak

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St Catherine's School is an independent and non-denominational Christian day and boarding school for girls, located in Toorak, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1896 as Castlemaine Ladies' College, the school has a non-selective enrolment policy. As for 2006 the school catered for approximately 730 students from pre-school to Year 12, including 80 boarders, on a 2.9 hectare campus. Boarding students come to St Catherine's from country Victoria, interstate and overseas.St Catherine's is a member of the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia, the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV), the Australian Boarding Schools Association, and a founding member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV).In August 2005, a huge scandal was brought upon the school when the then principal was found to be having unethical relations with students. The scandal was so large that it took over 2 years to find a replacement Sylvia Walter has been the campus principal and luckily enough, no other scandals like that have occurred. In October 2007, Sylvia Walton AO was appointed as the twelfth principal of St Catherine's School.

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