| McKinnon Secondary College | |
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291a McKinnon Rd, McKinnon 3204 VIC, Australia , Australia | |
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| School type | Public,coeducational,comprehensiveday school |
| Motto | Wisdom & Service |
| Established | 1955 |
| Principal | Mr Michael Kan |
| Years | 7–12 |
| Enrolment | 2,000+ |
| Colour(s) | Navy blue, white, red, green |
| Publication | McKinnon Newsletter |
| Website | www |
McKinnon Secondary College is apublic secondary school located in theMelbourne suburb ofMcKinnon. The school was ranked 44th in Victoria in terms of percentage of study scores of 40 or above in 2023, making it the highest-ranked non-selective public school.[1] In 2022, the school opened a second campus in Bentleigh East for Year 8 and Year 9 students. This new campus was officially dubbed theEast Campus, and the original campus dubbed theMcKinnon Road Campus. Michael Kan is the incumbent principal, taking over from Pitsa Binnion since her retirement at the end of 2022.[2][3][4]
McKinnon Secondary College is acoeducational secondary school, serving years 7–12, is located in McKinnon, Melbourne Southern Suburbs & Western Port region ofVictoria. It is one of thegovernment schools in the McKinnon area. Mckinnon Secondary College offers VET and VCAL courses. Theuniform is compulsory and enforced.[citation needed]
While the school previously had several computer labs with desktop computers runningWindows andmacOS, the majority of them were repurposed following the introduction of the school'sChromebook program, under which all students in the school are equipped with individual laptops runningChromeOS.[7]
McKinnon Secondary College is consistently in the top non-selectivegovernment schools in Victoria for the last decade, and in 2003 was the state system's second top non-selective-entry VCE school.[8] In 2011 it was ranked 62nd in the state out of all schools.[9] McKinnon Secondary College was ranked eighth out of all state secondary schools in Victoria based on VCE results in 2018,[10] and sixth out of all state secondary schools in 2024.[11]
McKinnon Secondary has many instrumental groups that cater for people of different ability, instrument and music style preferences.
The colleges music ensembles include:
The music faculty at McKinnon holds performances such as the Spring and junior concerts. An event considered important in the school calendar is the Winter Concert, held annually at Robert Blackwood Hall, inMonash University.[12] Every year, the college holds a House Music Festival, in which each house, Chisholm (blue), Monash (green), Gilmore (red) and Flynn (yellow), compete in three categories; instrumental, dancing and choral.[13]
McKinnon Secondary also produces a musical every second year. The most recent musical to be performed by the college wasThe Wedding Singer in 2023.[14] The next musical is planned to beMary Poppins in 2025.[15] Previous musicals in recent years includeLittle Shop of Horrors in 2015,[16]Zombie Prom in 2013,The Wiz in 2011,Hot Mikado in 2009, andThe Addams Family in 2017.[17]
McKinnon Secondary offers three languages,German,Spanish andFrench.[18] The school previously taughtKorean.[5]
It is compulsory for students in years 7 and 8 to learn a language. The college also hosts the Victorian School of Languages, which allows students to learn a language out of school in their own time as a subject forVCE. The VSL offers bothHebrew andRussian. This enables McKinnon students to learn another language, or their native language, as part of their VCE. Year 10 students have the opportunity to go on exchange trips to eitherGermany orNew Caledonia (France) and have an exchange student live with them for a period of time. Since 2022, Mckinnon has added the opportunity to learn Spanish, with two dedicated teachers.[citation needed]
The college offers an enhanced maths and science programme for selected students called ELMS. Students can enrol in Maths ELMS in Year 7, and can enrol in Science ELMS from Year 8. The programme runs until year 9, then after all Maths ELMS students are enrolled into Year 11 Mathematical Methods.[19] In Year 10, students can apply to be enrolled in Unit 1/2 VCE subjects, and subsequently, these students will continue to Unit 3/4 subjects in Year 11.[citation needed]
McKinnon Secondary holds sports carnivals throughout the year where students compete for their houses; Chisholm, Monash, Gilmore and Flynn (blue, green, red and yellow, respectively). The three annual carnivals are swimming, athletics and cross-country. The best students in these competitions go on to represent McKinnon at inter-school sporting events.[citation needed]
McKinnon Secondary offers activities including:
Students are required to wear auniform. The uniform policy is enforced by teachers. The colours of the uniform are blue, grey and white. There are two types of uniform; sport uniform and regular uniform. Sport uniform can only be worn on days when students have practical PE lessons, or interschool sport.[citation needed]
The regular summer uniform consists of aneck tie,button-up shirt andshorts/trousers for boys, and adress for girls. During the winter, girls wear neck-ties and shirts as well, and can choose between askirt or trousers. Additional accessories include ablazer, ajumper and ascarf. Students must wear black leather lace-up shoes while in regular uniform. During Term 2 and 3, blazers must be worn to and from school each day when not wearing sport uniform.[citation needed]
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