City of Maroondah

Maroondah Hospital is a public hospital located in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood East, Victoria, Australia. Affiliated with Deakin University the hospital provides clinical rotations for students enrolled in years 3 and 4 of the medical student programs, focusing on children's health.The hospital provides secondary acute care, and acute adult mental health services along with an emergency department which is open 24 hours, 7 days a week.Services include emergency medicine, general and specialist medicine, general and specialist surgery, critical care services, ambulatory and allied health services. The hospital is a major provider of specialist adult mental health services and provides community adult mental health services throughout Melbourne’s outer-east.

Tintern Grammar (also known as Tintern) is an independent, Anglican day school for girls and boys located in Ringwood East, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1877 by Emma Bartlet Cook, Tintern has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for over 890 students, from ELC through to Year 12, including international students. Located on one site in Ringwood East, the Early Learning Centre is co-educational, while girls and boys are educated in single-sex environments from Prep – Year 9. In Years 10 – 12 boys and girls learn together in a co-educational classes. The school is a member of the Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne (EISM), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA) and was a founding member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV).

Ringwood East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maroondah local government area. Ringwood East recorded a population of 10,764 at the 2021 census.It is located in the "Green Belt" of Melbourne, with much of the native vegetation and wildlife preserved in areas such as Wombalono Park and its surrounding suburban streets. The access to high performing public schools, such as Ringwood Secondary College, as well as renowned private schools Tintern Grammar and Aquinas College, is leading to high demand for housing in Ringwood East. The area is now being seen as a real life-style option by people who may have previously looked to areas, such as Balwyn and Camberwell, for quality schools. Ringwood East has its own railway station which is within the Myki Zone 2 fare zone on the Lilydale railway line. Maroondah Hospital is also located in Ringwood East, a large public hospital and emergency department serving the surrounding eastern suburbs. Ringwood East Post Office opened around 1902, in what was then a rural area, before the railway station opened in 1925.

Croydon South is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 32 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maroondah local government area. Croydon South recorded a population of 4,759 at the 2021 census.Croydon South has two main retail areas, Eastfield Shopping Centre on the corner of Eastfield and Bayswater Roads, incorporating over 20 retail outlets and a post office and Merrindale Shopping Centre on Dorset Road. Croydon South is close to the foothills of Mount Dandenong and the Dandenong Ranges. Croydon South Post Office opened on 1 February 1961 as the suburb was developed.

Croydon railway station is a commuter railway station on the Lilydale line, serving the eastern Melbourne suburb of Croydon, Victoria, Australia. Croydon is a premium status ground structure station featuring two side platforms. It opened on 1 December 1882 as Warrandyte before being renamed Croydon on 1 August 1884.

The City of Croydon was a local government area about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 34.32 square kilometres (13.25 sq mi), and existed from 1961 until 1994.

Yarra Valley Grammar (YVG) is an independent Anglican, co-educational grammar school, located in Ringwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Yarra Valley was founded as an all boys Anglican day school in 1966 before transitioning to a co-educational model in 1978. Yarra Valley is a member of AGSV (Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria), and has been periodically ranked amongst the top 50 schools in the state according to ATAR and VCE results, being placed as the 18th school in Victoria in 2022. Yarra Valley Grammar has also produced various notable alumni in the areas of sport, politics and academia, including seventeen professional AFL players, four olympians and two Victorian supreme court judges.

The electoral district of Croydon is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, located in the east of Melbourne. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election.It largely covers the area of the abolished district of Kilsyth, covering outer eastern suburbs in Melbourne. As of the 2022 Victorian state election, the seat contains the suburbs of Croydon, Croydon Hills, Croydon North, Croydon South, Mooroolbark, Kilsyth, Kilsyth South and Bayswater North in the local government areas of Maroondah City and Yarra Ranges Shire. The abolished seat of Kilsyth was held by Liberal MP David Hodgett, who retained the new seat at the 2014 election.

Croydon is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maroondah local government area. Croydon recorded a population of 28,608 at the 2021 census.

Ringwood Secondary College is a co-educational public secondary school located in the eastern suburb of Ringwood in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Ringwood Secondary College opened as Ringwood High School in 1954 and was one of the first high schools to be constructed in the new Light Timber Construction (LTC) style, which was developed by the Public Works Department in Victoria to address a chronic shortage in high school places in the 1950s. Ringwood Secondary College provides education for years 7-12. Year 11 and 12 students undertake the VCE program. There are currently approximately 1460 students enrolled at the school. RSC offers an extensive range of Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) subjects as well as the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) programme. The college has developed a centre of excellence for Automotive, Engineering and Manufacturing. The Music and Performing Arts Program at Ringwood Secondary College includes three concert bands, four stage bands, three string ensembles and two choirs. In recent competitions, Melbourne School Bands Festival, Mt Gambier Generations in Jazz and the Royal South Street Competition, the school has received awards for its stage bands, strings ensembles and symphonic orchestra.

Luther College is a co-educational, private secondary school of the Lutheran Church of Australia located in the outer-eastern suburb of Croydon Hills in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It maintains a close relationship with the Outer Eastern Lutheran Church parish of the Lutheran Church of Australia, which congregates in the school's chapel facilities. It provides education for years 7–12.

Norwood Secondary College is a secondary school located in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, situated in Ringwood, Victoria, Australia and right next to Mullum Primary School. Norwood Secondary College, in the City of Maroondah, is a single campus co-educational year 7–12 college with an enrolment of around 1100 students. Year 11 and 12 students can elect to undertake a VCE or VCAL. The year 2018 was Norwood's 60th anniversary.