St Aloysius College

Our story

St Aloysius traces back to 1880, when Irish Sisters of Mercy arrived in Adelaide from Argentina after unrest in Buenos Aires. That same year they bought George Dutton Green’s large house in Angas Street, behind St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral, and opened a convent and school called St Angela’s.

The building was extended over the years and the school was renamed St Aloysius in 1901. An inheritance from Argentine relatives of Mother Cecilia Cunningham in 1920 paid for more convent buildings and the chapel. When the sisters left Angas Street in 2005, the school took over the whole complex. Today it is a Catholic girls’ school in the Mercy tradition from Reception to Year 12, right in the city, with about 1,091 students (2025).