/ 37.89917°S 145.04139°E / -37.89917; 145.04139 Kilvington Grammar School (previously named Kilvington Girls Grammar) is an independent, Baptist, co-educational day school, located in Ormond, a suburb in the Glen Eira region of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Kilvington is officially opened as a Baptist School on 7 February, and is renamed Kilvington Baptist Girls’ Grammar School. Enrolment has grown to 188 students: 100 in Kindergarten, 87 in the Junior and Senior Schools, and only one in Intermediate level.
You can find out more about getting involved in school life at Kilvington by contacting the Parents and Friends Association – pfa@kilvington.vic.edu.au, and visiting the PFA website.
Kilvington offers a large sporting program, including sports such as football, Association Soccer, swimming, netball and hockey.
Kilvington Grammar School (previously named Kilvington Girls Grammar) is an independent, Baptist, co-educational day school, located in Ormond, a suburb in the Glen Eira region of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1923 by Caroline and Constance Barrett, Kilvington has a non-selective enrolment policy ...
Kilvington Grammar School has a diverse music culture, which includes the Kilvington Orchestra, Kilvington Madrigals, Kilvington Choir, String Orchestra and many chamber and instrumental ensembles. Kilvington Madrigals came second in the 2006 ABC Youth Choir of the Year competition.
Kilvington Madrigals came second in the 2006 ABC Youth Choir of the Year competition. A select few from the madrigal group also partook in a music festival in Chengdu, China in early 2007. They helped raise money for the welfare and preservation of the giant panda.
Kilvington offers a large sporting program, including sports such as football, Association Soccer, swimming, netball and hockey. Previously a member of Girls' Sport Victoria, Kilvington is now a member of the Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne (EISM) and competes against 21 other school in weekly sports competitions (in Aussie Rules, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, Table Tennis, Hockey, Netball, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball) and carnivals for swimming, cross country running and athletics.
To accommodate further growth, Kilvington moved to its much larger current site in 1955. The principal, Jon Charlton, announced in June 2010 that from 2011 the school would become coeducational. The decision was a controversial one, and some parents threatened to withdraw their daughter's enrolment from the school.
Established in 1923 by Caroline and Constance Barrett, Kilvington has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 800 students from the Early Learning Centre to Year 12. The school is affiliated with the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV), ...
Kilvington Grammar School has recently completed three new buildings since its change to a co-ed, independent school; the Middle School Centre for Excellence the VCE Study Centre, and the Kilvington Sport Centre.