| Footscray City College | |
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| Location | |
| Kinnear Street, Footscray, Victoria 3011 Australia |
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| Information | |
| Type | Government (public) |
| School district | Maribyrnong |
| Principal | Maria Bawden |
| Grades | 7 to 12 |
| Number of students | Approx. 1,000 |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Assistant principals | Stephanie Campbell, Robert McLeod |
| Nickname | Footscray City, FCC |
| Specialty | Science, Technology and The Arts |
| Website | [1] |
Footscray City College is a Year 7-12 and TAFE co-educational school in Melbourne, Australia. It is adjacent to Victoria University's Footscray Park campus, and Footscray Park itself. Approximately 1000 students attend, primarily from the local area. The college is on a spectacular site with views of the Maribyrnong River, Flemington Racecourse and the Melbourne CBD. The grounds are landscaped for student recreation, and are complemented by adjacent community playing fields and sporting facilities, including a large swimming and sporting complex belonging to Victoria University.
There are many facilities in the College including computer, creative arts, science, sport, multimedia, performing arts, cinema, film and TV studio, a Hospitality Skills Centre and horticultural facilities.
Each student in Years 7–10 studies the Learning Areas of Arts, English (including English as a second Language), Health and Physical Education, Languages other than English, Mathematics, Science, Technology and the Studies of Society and the Environment.
In Years 11, 12, and beyond, students are provided with a comprehensive range of pathways, including the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL), and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Certificate and Diploma courses in Film and Television Studies.
They have recently developed a "Futures Centre" for Year 9 and 10 students, where students undertake individually tailored programs with project based learning that is IT rich.
The "Footscray City College Film and Television School" had one of the highest VTAC first preferences to offers ratios of any tertiary institution in 2006. At 1.31, it was only bettered by four high demand universities, the International College of Hotel Management and the TAFE division of the Australian Maritime College. It also had the second lowest non-acceptance of offers at 3.45%, bettered only by the Sunraysia Institute of TAFE.
In March 1916, the Footscray Technical School began teaching at what is now Victoria University's Footscray Nicholson campus. In July 1958, this school was renamed "Footscray Technical College". On 25 September 1968, it was renamed "Footscray Institute of Technology" (FIT).
On 1 July 1972 the secondary education part of the Institute was separated and named "Footscray Secondary Technical School". It continued to operate on the Nicholson St site. However, its council was not established until early 1975, a new site (on Ballarat Rd) was not acquired until 1975 and was not ready for occupation until May 1980. Thus during this period it remained closely linked to the Institute.
It became known as "Footscray City Secondary College". Today it is known as "Footscray City College". The tertiary component is known as "Footscray City College Film and Television School".