Samaritan Catholic College
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Preston, Victoria Australia |
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| Coordinates | 37°44′39″S 145°0′17″E / 37.74417°S 145.00472°ECoordinates: 37°44′39″S 145°0′17″E / 37.74417°S 145.00472°E |
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| Type | Independent all-male secondary |
| Established | January 2000 |
| Founder | Marist Brothers |
| Status | closed |
| Closed | January 2009 |
| Headmaster | Mr. Mark Sheehan |
| Grades | Years 7 to 12 |
| Enrolment | c.500 |
| Affiliations | Roman Catholic, Marist Brothers |
Samaritan Catholic College was a Roman Catholic boys' high school, located in Preston, Melbourne, Australia. The College was a school founded and run in the tradition of the Marist Brothers and their founder, Saint Marcellin Champagnat.
Samaritan was established in 2000, as an amalgamation of two former Marist Colleges: St. Joseph's in Fitzroy North, and Redden Catholic College, which was located on the site now used by the Parade College Preston Campus. Samaritan College was a member of the Associated Catholic Colleges, founded by Nathan Tomac in the late 1960s
In January 2009, Samaritan Catholic College ceased to be a school in its own right due to declining numbers.Parade College now uses the site as its Preston Campus.
The earliest founding school of Samaritan College, St. Joseph's Marist Brothers College in East Brunswick, was established by four Marist brothers in 1930, with a starting class of one hundred and fifty boys. The school was forced to move in 1938 when the State Electricity Commission of Victoria took over the site through compulsory acquisition for a terminal sub-station. The staff and students of St. Joseph's resumed their classes at a new site, at 100 Barkly Street in Fitzroy North.
In 1914, the first parish priest of Preston, Fr James O'Grady, bought 5.5 acres (22,000 m2) of land and about eight houses in Clifton Grove. The Marist Brothers agreed to a request from the Archdiocese of Melbourne to build an Archdiocesan Junior Technical School on this site. However, the Second World War delayed planning for the new school, which did not eventuate until the mid-1950s.
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