McKinnon Secondary College
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McKinnon, Victoria Australia |
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| School type | Public, coeducational, comprehensive day school |
| Motto | Wisdom & Service |
| Established | 1955 |
| Principal | Mrs Pitsa Binnion |
| Years | 7-12 |
| Enrolment | 1,855 |
| Colour(s) | Navy blue, white, red, green |
| Publication | McKinnon Newsletter |
| Website | mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au |
McKinnon Secondary College is a public secondary school located in the Melbourne suburb of McKinnon. The school was ranked 62nd in Victoria in terms of VCE median study score in 2012. McKinnon is known for its large music faculty. The school's six core values are Respect, Integrity, Resilience, Community, Creativity, and Success.
Press reports have indicated that parents will relocate their residence to within a popular State school's "zone" to attempt entry for their children, with the potential effect of increasing the value of real estate within that zone.
The school previously held numerous PC and Mac computer labs, although this number has been reduced following the introduction of the school's Chromebook program, under which all students in the school are equipped with individual Chromebooks.
McKinnon Secondary College is consistently in the top non-selective government schools in Victoria for the last decade, and in 2003 was the state system's second top non-selective-entry VCE school. In 2011 it was ranked 62nd in the state out of all schools, and ranked 6th out of public schools
McKinnon Secondary has many instrumental groups that cater for people of different ability, instrument and music style preference.
The colleges music ensembles include:
The music faculty at McKinnon holds many performances such as the Spring and junior concerts. An event considered important in the school calendar is the Winter Concert, held annually at Robert Blackwood Hall, in Monash University. The college also produces a musical every second year. The most recent musical to be performed by the college was 'Little Shop Of Horrors'. Five shows were performed from 10 to 13 June 2015. Previous musicals in recent years include 'Zombie Prom' in 2013, 'The Wiz' in 2011, and 'Hot Mikado' in 2009.
McKinnon Secondary offers two languages, German and French. The school previously taught Korean.
It is compulsory for students in years 7 and 8 to learn a language. The college also hosts the Victorian School of Languages, which allows students to learn a language out of school in their own time as a subject for VCE. The VSL offers both Hebrew and Russian. This enables McKinnon students to learn another language, or their native language, as part of their VCE. Year 10 students have the opportunity to go on exchange trips to either Germany or France and have an exchange student live with them for a period of time.
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