Bacchus Marsh Grammar School

Bacchus Marsh Grammar School
Location
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria
Australia
Coordinates 37°41′27″S 144°25′54.4″E / 37.69083°S 144.431778°E / -37.69083; 144.431778Coordinates: 37°41′27″S 144°25′54.4″E / 37.69083°S 144.431778°E / -37.69083; 144.431778
Information
Type Independent, Co-educational (Primary), (Secondary), Day
Motto Latin: Doctrina Vitae
(Education for Life)
Denomination Ecumenical
Established 1988
Principal Mr Andrew Neal
Grades P-12
Enrolment ~1,700[1] (2014)
Colour(s) blue, yellow,, black and white                 
Website www.bmg.vic.edu.au

Bacchus Marsh Grammar School is an independent, co-educational secondary school day school located in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia. [2]

History

Bacchus Marsh Grammar School opened in February 1988. It has grown from three classrooms, to a school of more than 1600 pupils from Preparatory to Year 12.

The school is known for its increasingly strong VCE results . The school's highest achieving students have scored ATARs of 99.50, with several students also achieving a perfect study score of 50 in a variety of subjects.

The school consists of four houses, Bacchus (Blue), Braeside (White), Hilton (Gold) and Pentland (Black), who contest the House Shield each year. The Houses compete in a number of events including athletics, chess, music, drama, swimming and cross-country. [3]

Controversy

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[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Bacchus Marsh Grammar School". Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  2. ↑ Bacchus Marsh Grammar School, school website, Accessed 11 December 2010
  3. ↑ , Accessed 11 December 2010
  4. ↑ Cook, Henrietta (2015-09-17). "Transgender students: the struggle to fit in at school". The Age. Retrieved 2015-09-27.

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