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Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne

Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne
Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne crest. Source: www.mlc.vic.edu.au (MLC website)
Location
Kew, Victoria
Australia
Coordinates 37°48′49″S 145°2′19″E / 37.81361°S 145.03861°E / -37.81361; 145.03861Coordinates: 37°48′49″S 145°2′19″E / 37.81361°S 145.03861°E / -37.81361; 145.03861
Information
Type Independent, Single-sex, Day & Boarding
Motto Latin: Deo Domuique
("For God and for Home")
Denomination Uniting Church
Established 1882
Principal Miss Diana Vernon
Chaplain Meaghan Paul
Enrolment ~2,200 (ELC-12)
Colour(s) Green & Silver         
Slogan "MLC girls become world-ready women"
Website

Methodist Ladies' College (commonly referred to as MLC) is an independent, non-selective, day and boarding school for girls, located in Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school has two additional outdoor education campuses known as 'Marshmead' and 'Banksia'.

Established in 1882 on its current campus by the Methodist Church of Australasia, MLC is now a school of the Uniting Church in Australia, and caters for approximately 2200 students from the Early Learning Centre (MLC Kindle) to year 12, including more than 100 boarders.

The college is a member of Girls Sport Victoria, the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), and the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia.

MLC offers students both the Victorian Certificate of Education and the International Baccalaureate.

Fees are up to $36,000 per student per year.

William Henry Fitchett was secretary of a committee formed in 1879 to start a secondary school for girls. MLC was founded on its current campus in Kew on 14 February 1882 as a modern school of the first order, with buildings that formed a collegiate institution for girls unsurpassed in the colonies. It was the first Australian girls’ school established by the Wesleyan Methodists and Fitchett was the first principal. The goal of its founders was to provide a high-class Christian education for girls, comparable with that provided elsewhere for boys. As the first Australian girls’ school established by the Wesleyan Methodists, MLC attracted boarders from all Australian colonies.


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