Bacchus Marsh Grammar School | |
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Coordinates | 37°41′27″S144°25′54.4″E / 37.69083°S 144.431778°E |
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Type | private school, co-educational, primary and secondary, day |
Motto | Latin: Doctrina Vitae (Education for Life) |
Denomination | Ecumenical |
Established | 1988 |
Principal | Andrew Neal |
Grades | K–12 |
Enrolment | ~2,500 (2018) |
Colour(s) | Dark blue, gold, black and white |
Website | www.bmg.vic.edu.au |
Bacchus Marsh Grammar School is a private, co-educational, primary and secondary day school located in Maddingley, Australia.
Bacchus Marsh Grammar School opened in February 1988. It has grown from three classrooms, to a school of three campuses and more than 2300 pupils from Preparatory to Year 12.
The school is known for its increasingly strong VCE results.[ citation needed ] The school's highest achieving students have scored ATARs of 99.95, with several students also achieving a perfect study score of 50+ in a variety of subjects.[ citation needed ]
The school consists of eight houses, which are named after tributaries of the Werribee River, and each have their own colour, animal mascot and a native flora to represent them. Each year, they contest for the House Shield. The houses compete in a number of events including athletics, chess, music, drama, swimming, cross-country and community singing. [1]
House | Pykes | Lerderderg | Toolern | Pyrites | Djerriwarrh | Kororoit | Parwan | Dale |
Colour | Light blue | Navy blue | Bright red | Maroon | Purple | Yellow | Bottle Green | Orange |
Mascot | Growling Grass Frog | Sugar Glider | Pelican | Kangaroo | Platypus | Rosella | Echidna | Wedgetail Eagle |
Flora | River Bottlebrush | Blackwood | River Redgum | Snow Daisy | Silver Wattle | Sheoak | Manna Gum | Peppermint Gum |
In 2015 Bacchus Marsh Grammar received negative press for its treatment of a transgender student Erik Ly. Erik claims he told staff he was transgender but still had to wear "the girls uniform". Erik says he plans to lodge a complaint about the independent schools with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission when he has finished his VCE [2] Ly moved to a public school that has gender-neutral bathrooms to complete high school. [3]
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