Loreto College
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Loreto in Adelaide began in 1905, when sisters of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM) opened a convent school in a small house on Sydenham Road, Norwood, with five students. Two years later it moved to a larger house on The Parade, and in 1921 it settled at “The Acacias”, a 5.25-acre property in Marryatville, where the ballroom became the junior school and the boarders slept upstairs.
The campus grew steadily: a new wing in 1951, the Junior School in 1961, the Mary Ward wing in 1969, then a gym, music and performing arts centres and a co-educational early learning centre in 2006. Today Loreto is a Catholic girls’ day and boarding school from Reception to Year 12, with about 717 students (2025).
Facilities & sport
- Gym
- Theatre / performing arts centre
- Music centre
- Boarding
- Early learning centre
- Library
- Science / STEM labs
- Tennis courts
- Australian rules football
- Soccer
- Netball
- Basketball
- Rowing
- Swimming
- Athletics
- Tennis
- Hockey
- Volleyball
- Badminton
- Water polo
From the school’s website (source). A missing item may just not be listed.
Fees, results and cost to Year 12
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