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Melbourne High School is a selective-entry state school for boys in years 9 to 12 located in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra. The school is known mainly for its strong academic reputation. Melbourne High School had the leading rank based on VCE average, with its 2009 cohort achieving a median ENTER of 95.85, the highest of any Victorian school in recorded history.〔(Best VCE Result ever ) Melbourne High School Old Boys Association. 15 December 2009〕〔(School Choice Victoria ) Melbourne High School.〕 The school was founded in 1905 as the first coeducational state secondary school in Victoria. Melbourne High School was originally located in Spring Street in Melbourne. In 1927, the boys and girls split, with the boys moving to a new school at Forrest Hill in the inner city suburb of South Yarra which retained the name Melbourne High School.〔 The girls eventually moved to the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School on Kings Way, Melbourne. Throughout this history, enrolment for year 9 has been determined by an entrance examination, held in June each year. The entrance examination consists of an assessment of the applicant's mathematics and English skills. In 2007, 308 Year 9s entered the school,〔 out of over 1,200 students who undertook the examination.〔 Students have achieved very strong results in the VCE examinations, and placements at tertiary institutions are at a rate well above Victoria's average.〔 The school has a compulsory involvement program, including involvement within school and within the broader community. Its ethos encourages investment of effort into academic, sporting, musical, leadership, and personal pursuits. It was also the first school in Australia to establish a Student Representative Council, with the assistance of Sir Robert Menzies. In addition, the school owns an outdoor education facility in Millgrove, which lies near the Warburton ranges. In 2010, ''The Age'' reported that Melbourne High School ranked equal tenth among Australian schools based on the number of alumni who had received a top Order of Australia honour.〔 The hard-copy article also published a table of the schools which were ranked in the top ten places, as follows: (1st, with 19 awards) Scotch College, Melbourne; (2nd, with 17 awards) Geelong Grammar School; (3rd, with 13 awards) Sydney Boys High School, (equal 4th, with 10 awards each) Fort Street High School, Perth Modern School and St Peter's College, Adelaide; (equal 7th, with 9 awards each) Melbourne Grammar School, North Sydney Boys High School and The King's School, Parramatta; (equal 10th, with 6 awards each) Launceston Grammar School, Melbourne High School, Wesley College, Melbourne, and Xavier College.〕 ==History== Under controversial circumstances arising from the opposition of private schools, on 15 February 1905, Frank Tate, the first Director of Education, established Victoria's first state secondary school, the Melbourne Continuation School, with 135 girls and 68 boys.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Melbourne High School History )〕 Tate's motivation for establishing the school was to allow students from state primary schools to continue their education, which would otherwise have ended if they could not afford to join one of Melbourne's private schools.〔 The school's original campus was that of the Old National Model School in Spring Street. Joseph Hocking, an inspector of schools, was named the first principal, emerging from a large number of varied applications for the job.〔 Hocking followed Tate's vision, and moulded the school into one which produced students of high quality as evidenced by their final year results.〔 By 1919, it had the greatest number of students at Melbourne University (the only university then) from any school.〔 In 1910, the first sporting exchange with Adelaide High School occurred, years later this would be followed by an exchange with North Sydney Boys' High School.〔 Sport, music, cadets, the school magazine and social events became important areas of the school.〔 In 1914, with the school just nine years old, the school's ongoing growth and development was disrupted by World War I, where over 500 students served.〔 The school has since developed a special association with Anzac Cove, sending cadets and students to partake in ANZAC Day ceremonies every year.〔〔 Hocking spoke of the students as: The school's growth soon resumed, but the building they occupied was beginning to feel dilapidated.〔 In the 1920s, it was announced that the school would split and the boys and girls would move to alternative locations.〔 In October 1927, the boys moved to Forrest Hill in South Yarra and formed the Melbourne Boys' High School. The old campus was renamed the Melbourne Girls' High School. Between 1931 and 1934, the girls of the old Melbourne Continuation School moved from Government House, to the King Street Central School and finally to Albert Park, renaming the school as the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School.〔 The new campus at Forrest Hill soon developed, and traditions like the house competition began.〔 The Depression did not prevent Melbourne High School from expanding the Forrest Hill campus and developing sporting facilities.〔 Old traditions in music and debating continued, with the addition of house chorals, which is now an important event in the school calendar.〔〔 New traditions began, such as a house system, with competition in various sports, debating and with the strong music tradition of the school, house chorals. A Memorial Hall paid for by past students was a feature of the new school.〔 Just as had occurred in World War I, World War II disrupted the school's proceedings greatly. The school building itself was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy.〔 The students of the school moved to either the new Camberwell High School or the Tooronga Road State School. It was only until 1944 that the students returned to Forrest Hill under the new principal Major-General (later Sir) Alan Ramsay.〔 Ramsay was the first 'Old Boy', or former student, to have become principal. Since then, all but one of his successors have been Old Boys.〔〔 In the 1950s, Brigadier George Langley set up reviving the school, laying down the plans for a swimming pool and physical education centre while also reestablishing the Tecoma camp.〔 This led to an upgrade in the school's facilities. In 1960, the physical education centre and swimming pool opened. In 1965, a new library was established. In 1968, portable classrooms were built. In 1970, the Junior Science Block was opened.〔 In the 1980s, the ageing buildings needed refurbishment and new facilities were needed to meet the rapidly changing demands of a modern education, most notably the need for computers.〔 Neville Drohan, the principal from 1987 to 1991, combined government funding with donations from the school community to construct a new four level building: the Nineties building (see facilities below).〔 In 1992, Raymond Willis became the principal of the school.〔 1995 was the scene of the full refurbishment of the original building, which was built in 1927, including the addition of a computer suite, dark room, a new general office, improved classroom, a conference room, the heritage room and an upgraded canteen and dining area.〔〔 The grass hockey field that had originally existed was replaced with a synthetic one and next to the hockey field two plexipave basketball courts were built.〔 The school oval was the next to be revamped. In 1999, new turf wickets which would be maintained by a curator were added along with new drainage and watering as well as an upgrade to the lighting.〔 The new oval was given the name of the Woodfull-Miller Oval in honour of Bill Woodfull, a former student and principal, and Keith Miller, another former student, both of whom were highly regarded Australian test cricketers.〔 Willis continued his plans to upgrade the school's facilities with the construction of a cardio room in the Nineties building, and the addition of four junior science classrooms.〔 The Army Cadets and Air Force Cadets received a new building in 2002, a building which included orderly rooms, meeting rooms, seminar rooms, display areas, kitchen and toilets. In 2002, new changerooms were also constructed in the Old Boys Pavilion, along with the construction of a new Hockey Pavilion overlooking the synthetic hockey field.〔 The expansion had other ramifications. The school now had extra space, and as a result increased its enrolment to a new high of 1366.〔 However, this meant a lower cutoff in the entrance exam, which led to the school's median ENTER dropping to second in the state. The median only returned to first place again in 2009 (see Academics). After making numerous innovative changes and advancements, Ray Willis died in July 2004 as the school's longest serving principal and the school went into a state of mourning.〔 In January 2005, Jeremy Ludowyke was appointed principal. In 2007 a new Arts Centre began construction and after nearly two years was officially opened by major donator and 'old-boy' Lindsay Fox (who was asked to leave).〔 In 2007, Year Ten students were assigned to produce their own 'Citizenship Statement'. The results were collated to create an official 'MHS Citizenship Statement', that details the expectations of Melbourne High students and now appears in the student planner.〔 The school admits that it is primarily seen as an academic school〔 but it nonetheless has developed a wide range of co-curricular traditions of music, with massed singing, formal assemblies and speech nights, the house sporting competition, house choral competition, Army and Air Force cadet corps, current affairs groups and school sports. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melbourne High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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