PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME

Welcome. When you visit the various web pages I hope you will see what makes our School so special and how it has gained the loyalty, respect and affection of thousands of students and parents and hundreds of teachers and School personnel.

We are proudly a selective entry state school for boys in Years 9 to 12. We conduct an entrance examination each year for Year 8 boys who wish to apply for the School. We select about 336 boys from over 1300 applicants.

As a state school, significantly funded by government, we are able to provide a superb education with an annual average parent contribution of about $2,000 per student. Most of these funds are used for the provision of programmes and facilities that are unable to be provided by many other schools. The support of parents is strongly matched by that of Old Boys and friends of the School. The School has also been active in Joint Development Agreements with the MCC (Melbourne Cricket Club) and in enterprise endeavours such as the South Yarra Sports Club (owned and operated by the School).

The School is a place where: -

• boys are well looked after

• there are many learning options

• boys are expected to excel

• boys are encouraged to be themselves

• nonconformity of thought and intellect is encouraged within an environment of rigorous, and sometimes frenetic, application to learning opportunities.

Our School is an exciting place where future leaders, in all areas of endeavour, have been provided with the stimulating and happy environment required to enable and encourage them to go on learning and to show others how to learn. As a student so aptly wrote for the School Magazine in 1995, Melbourne High School has, “Inherent School pride, institutional respect for all students, tradition blended with liberalism”.