Toorak College
| Toorak College, Mount Eliza 3930 | |
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Mount Eliza, Victoria Australia 
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| Coordinates | 38°10′20″S 145°5′35″E / 38.17222°S 145.09306°ECoordinates: 38°10′20″S 145°5′35″E / 38.17222°S 145.09306°E |
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| Type | Independent, day and boarding |
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Latin: In Labore Quies (In work lies rest) |
| Denomination | Non-denominational |
| Established | 1874 |
| Chairman | Peter Wickenden |
| Principal | Kristy Kendall |
| Employees | ~237 |
| Enrolment | ~861 (P–12) |
| Colour(s) | Red, gold and blue |
| Website | www.toorakcollege.vic.edu.au |
Toorak College is an independent, inter-denominational, day and boarding school for girls years 5 - 12 and co-educational from pre school to year four. The school is located above Port Phillip Bay in Mount Eliza, a town approximately forty kilometres south of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The school began in 1874 as a boys' school in Toorak, a suburb of Melbourne, and moved to its current location at Mount Eliza in 1928, as an independent school for girls. The college currently caters to approximately 925 students from kindergarten to year 12, including 70 boarders from years 7 to 12, and offers a range of Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) subjects. Toorak College also offers co-curricular activities including a wide range of visual and performing arts and sports. Toorak's co-educational ELC and junior school (years K-6) has been an IB World School since November 2007, and is authorised to offer the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP).
Toorak College is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV), the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA), and is a founding member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV).
Toorak College takes its name from the township of Toorak, where it opened as a boys' school on Wednesday, 21 January 1874. At first, classes were held in the brick hall of St John's Presbyterian Church on Jackson Street, Toorak, but the school soon moved into specially erected buildings on nearby Douglas Street. The founding principal was John Stevens Miller, a Scot, who had been involved in several schools since his arrival in Victoria, in 1854.
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