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Gladstone Park Secondary College | |
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Coordinates | 37°41′19″S144°53′29″E / 37.68861°S 144.89139°E |
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Type | Co-educational public comprehensive secondary school |
Motto | Knowledge is Power |
Established | 1974 |
Principal | Veronica Hoy |
Years offered | 7–12 |
Enrolment | 1644 [1] (2018) |
Campus | Taylor Drive |
Colour(s) | Dark green, white, grey & black |
Website | www |
Gladstone Park Secondary College is a public state school in Melbourne, Australia founded in 1974.
The school has around More than 1600 students, a figure which has remained roughly constant for over a decade. When it first opened, Gladstone Park Secondary School (GPSC) quickly became the largest school in terms of matriculated students within a 10 km radius, a position which it still holds today.[ citation needed ]
The school has a special disability partnership with the local TAFE institutes, where most GPSC graduates enrol to do apprenticeships or diplomas.
The school grounds contain many sports facilities including a football and soccer oval, outdoor basketball and netball courts, cricket nets and an outdoor hockey/ futsal pitch. There is an indoor sports centre with two basketball courts, squash courts and gym facilities. The school library is open to students and the public.
A joint senior school office and year 12 study centre building opened in 2017.
On 1 March 2017, an intruder broke into the school in the early hours of the morning. They broke into forty Year 12 students' lockers and stole textbooks, scientific calculators and other objects. However, the school decided to not compensate the students for the theft of their valuables because the school was not "entirely at fault". This caused major uproar among students & parents, especially because students had "hours and hours of notes" that had been prepared for their VCE subjects. [2]
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