Gladstone Park is a single campus, co-educational Year 7 to 12 College of approximately 1350 students that services a large, culturally diverse residential community in the Northwestern suburbs of Melbourne.
The school operates using a Sub-School model with Junior School years 7 – 8; Middle School years 9 – 10 and Senior School years 11 – 12. Currently more than thirty primary schools provide students for entry at Year 7.
The school provides a core program in Years 7-9. The Year 10 blocks align with the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) blocks. We offer a broad VCE program allowing students to be challenged at their academic level. The VCE program includes a Vocational Major (VM) offering. Vocational Education and Training subjects are available for all VCE and VM students. A considerable proportion of Year 10 students undertake a VCE subject or pursue additional pathway options within the conventional curriculum program.
We have a Select Entry Acceleration Program (SEAL) which caters for gifted and highly able students. We also have a flagship Language Immersion program or CLIL (Content Learning in Language), where students learn History and Geography in Italian. Both these programs achieve excellent academic outcomes for students
The school provides a significant extra-curricular and enrichment program including a large instrumental music program and several school bands; extensive inter-school sports program; debating; drama and musical productions; and a broad range of lunchtime club activities.
We have high expectations of our students and we provide high levels of support through our Disability Inclusion, Student Wellbeing, and Sub-school teams.
Our facilities include a contemporary three hundred seat Performing Arts Centre with a dance studio, community library, modern administration block, two gyms and separate year 7 area. We begin our 11.7 million dollar school upgrade in 2025, which will provide industry-standard digital arts and technology facilities, and upgraded learning spaces and facilities throughout the school.
