St Catherine's School, Toorak
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Toorak, Victoria Australia 
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| Coordinates | 37°50′17″S 145°1′15″E / 37.83806°S 145.02083°ECoordinates: 37°50′17″S 145°1′15″E / 37.83806°S 145.02083°E |
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| Type | Independent, Day & Boarding school |
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Latin: Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum ( Nothing is great unless it is good") |
| Denomination | Non-denominational Christian |
| Established | 1896 |
| Founder | Jeanie Hood |
| Chairman | A. Waterhouse |
| Principal | Michelle Carroll |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrolment | ~730 (P-12) |
| Colour(s) | Blue, Gold and Grey |
| Slogan | "One of Australia's finest since 1896" |
| Website | stcatherines |
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 and currently caters 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 October 2007, Sylvia Walton AO was appointed as the twelfth principal of St Catherine's School.
St Catherine's School was founded as Castlemaine Ladies' College in 1896, by Jeanie Hood in Templeton Street, Castlemaine.
At the instigation of Henry Langley, the first Anglican Bishop of Bendigo, his daughters, Ruth, Aphra and Nona took over the school in 1903. The Langley sisters later changed the school's name to Castlemaine Girls' College, and in 1911 to St Catherine's Girls College, Castlemaine, after the Anglican school St Catherine's School at Waverley in Sydney, where Ruth and Nona Langley had been educated. St Catherine's was a nominally Anglican school at this time in its history.
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