St Bede's College | |
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Address | |
2 Mentone Parade , 3194 | |
Coordinates | 37°59′28″S145°4′3″E / 37.99111°S 145.06750°E |
Information | |
Type | Independent Catholic |
Motto | Latin: Per Vias Rectas (By Right Paths) |
Denomination | Catholic (Lasallian) |
Established | 1938 |
Principal | Deborah Frizza |
Years | 7–12 (Mentone campus) 7–9 (Bentleigh East campus) [1] |
Gender | Boys |
Enrolment | 1,950 [1] |
Colour(s) | Blue, Red, Gold |
Affiliation | Associated Catholic Colleges |
Website | www.stbedes.catholic.edu.au |
St Bede's College is a Catholic secondary school for boys in the Melbourne suburb of Mentone. The college was founded in 1938 by the De La Salle Brothers, a religious order based on the teachings of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, and is a member of the Associated Catholic Colleges and the Council of International Schools. The college has two campuses: one in Mentone that takes students from years 7 to 12, and one in Bentleigh East that takes students from years 7 to 9.
The College was founded in 1938 at Mentone Beach, by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or De La Salle Order of Brothers, also known as The French Christian Brothers. The Brothers built the college overlooking Mentone Beach which opened in February, 1938. The Order had purchased a property which included a Victorian homestead, "the McCristal Estate", that had been used by Mentone Girls Grammar School since the early 1920s. From its inception, St Bede's was a day and boarding school. It is now a day school only. [2] [3] It remains an independent school in the Catholic tradition with its administration still retained by the De La Salle Brothers.
The school was named after St. Bede the Venerable, a 7th-century Benedictine monk and priest, who spent his life teaching and writing at Jarrow Abbey, and who was the first English historian, famous for his publication of Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
St Bede's attracts Catholic students from Mentone and surrounding suburbs as far south-east as the Mornington Peninsula. As a boarding school its bailiwick was statewide and encompassed southern New South Wales, and internationally from South East Asia, the South Pacific and the expat community. Its ethos is that of an essentially middle class institution, with an emphasis on athleticism, religion, and discipline. It now comprises approximately 1950 day students. [3] [4]
In 2021 the former St James College in Bentleigh East became a campus of St Bede's. [5]
Following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse allegations of sexual abuse between 1975 and 1985 at the (Bentleigh East) college were made. [6]
St Bede's College offers its senior students the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).
Year | Rank | Median study score | Scores of 40+ (%) | Cohort size |
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2012 | 143 | 31 | 6.9 | 352 |
2013 | 105 | 32 | 9.5 | 345 |
2014 | 138 | 31 | 7.9 | 329 |
2015 | 143 | 31 | 7.6 | 372 |
2016 | 118 | 31 | 9.9 | 347 |
2017 | 141 | 31 | 7.9 | 349 |
2018 | 170 | 30 | 7.8 | 333 |
2019 | 178 | 30 | 6.3 | 326 |
2020 | 183 | 30 | 5.9 | 358 |
2021 | 190 | 30 | 6.4 | 347 |
2022 | 261 | 29 | 4.2 | 338 |
2023 | 125 | 31 | 8.3 | 343 |
In 2016, the college's F1 in Schools team, Infinitude, set the World Record at the World Finals in Austin, Texas, in collaboration with Brighton Secondary School, Adelaide. [8]
Also in this same year, a team of students successfully won the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge in the Year 9–12 Gamemaker/Gamestar Mechanic category with their game Spectrum. [9]
St Bede's is a member of the Associated Catholic Colleges (ACC).
St Bede's has won the following ACC first division senior premierships and first division aggregate championships: [10]
This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy.(August 2018) |
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