St John's Regional College
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Melbourne, Victoria Australia |
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| Coordinates | 37°59′26″S 145°13′34″E / 37.99056°S 145.22611°ECoordinates: 37°59′26″S 145°13′34″E / 37.99056°S 145.22611°E |
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| Type | Catholic Secondary College, Co-Educational |
| Motto | Virtus in Astra Tendit |
| Established | 1958 |
| Founder | De La Salle Brothers and Presentation Sisters |
| Principal | Tim Hogan |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Enrolment | 1150 approx. |
| Campus | Dandenong |
| Colour(s) | Yellow, Blue, Green |
| Website | www.sjcdandenong.catholic.edu.au |
St John's Regional College is a Catholic co-educational secondary school situated in Dandenong in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Br Amedy Molloy 1958 – 1969
Br Domenic Della Bosca 1970 – 1975
Br Leo Scollen 1976 – 1982
Br Kevin Maloney 1983 – 1987
Mr Michael Quin 1988 – 1991
Mr Patrick Power 1992– 2008
Mr Andrew Walsh 2009 - 2016
Mr Brendan Watson 2016 - end of 2016 (interim Principal)
Mr Tim Hogan 2017 -
St John's Regional College began when the parish priests of the region recognised the need for a secondary boys' school in the area. There had been an increasing number of students who were continuing their education beyond primary school and many were required to travel considerable distances to access this education.
St Mary's Primary School staffed by the Presentation Sisters had educated both girls and boys through Prep to Grade 6 and for many into Form I and Form II.
In 1957 after a successful approach to the De La Salle Brothers to staff a new school, St John's Boys School opened in 1958 with the Founding Principal Brother Amedy Molloy. Initially the first classes taught on February 4, 1958, Grade 6, Form I and Form II were in classrooms at St Mary's. Br Amedy had charge of Form 1 and Form II in one room with 38 and 13 students respectively and Mr J F Maher took over the Grade 6 with 69 students.
It was not long until the new school moved 'across the road' into their own building. It was just a tin shed on the site for the new building, with 120 boys, and students were called to class by a bell hanging in a gum tree.
In the ensuing years St John's Boys School continued to grow. The ground floor of new brick building in New Street was completed in 1959, with the second floor completed in 1960. In 1965 it was recognised that St John's Boys School needed a new location and was serving a much wider area.
In 1966, for the first time, St John's was a regional college serving the parishes of St Mary's Dandenong, St Gerard's North Dandenong, St Anthony's Noble Park, Holy Family Doveton and St Michael's Berwick.
In late November 1967 the new buildings in Caroline Street Dandenong were officially opened and blessed by Archbishop Knox, and in on the first day of school in 1968 Form I – VI boys began life at the then new and now current location of St John's. The Grade 5 and Grade 6 boys who had been part of St John's Boys School now returned to be part of St Mary's School.
The secondary girls at St Mary's became St Mary's Girls Secondary College (1968) and later the same year changed name to St Angela's (in honour of Sr Angela Burke, one of the founding Presentation Sisters in Dandenong). 1968 saw the sharing of resources/teachers between St Angela's and St John's, particularly for Matriculation classes.
In 1970 the decision was made to amalgamate St John's and St Angela's, and in 1971 Senior co-education classes were conducted on the Caroline Street site as well as Junior and Middle Secondary Boys' classes. The Junior and Middle Secondary Girls' classes remained at St Angela's on their McCrae Street site until the last year of St Angela's 1973.
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