St Michael's Grammar School

St Michael's offers a wide range of subjects including core mathematics, science, English, IT, LOTEs (Languages Other Than English), arts and humanities courses. At primary level, all students study basic subjects including mathematics, English, science, geography, history, Japanese, music and sport. The school is renowned for its Performing Arts program.^[7]

St Michael's is a member of the Association of Coeducational Schools (ACS).

Each year the school puts on productions, including Years 10 to 12 senior musical; the Years 7 to 9 musical and play; Dance Project (a contemporary dance production); a student production; a house drama festival and three yearly senior productions (Year 6, Years 7–9, Years 10–12). In 2001, St Michael's was the first school to stage a production at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre with the performance of Les Misérables.^[9] The 2010 senior musical, 13, was the Australian premiere of the musical and won the best production award at the Victorian Musical Theatre Guild awards (the fourth St Michael's musical to do so).^[10]

The St Michael's 2025 10-12 Quadrant's GREASE: The Musical has been recognised by the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria (MTGV) with 16 nominations and commendations.^[11]

St Michael's also conducts an annual house drama competition, and an annual house singing & aerobics competition, in which all five of the school houses perform a musical item. Many other musical ensembles perform regularly throughout the year, including the 7–12 Harrison Choir, which each year performs a large choral work, and the Grigoryan Orchestra (named for school alumnus, classical guitarist Slava Grigoryan).

In 2025, the school apologised for the descriptions of pupils in a cast list distributed to parents. Principal Gerard Houlihan addressed the issue in a radio interview.^[12]

St Michael's has a "School of Rock" program, where students in Years 7–12 are mentored by rock musicians, leading to public performances and recordings.^{[13][better source needed]}

The program is notable for being the origin of the Cheeky Geezers,^[14] a local rock band.^[15][16]

The school is involved in social service, working to raise money for various charities.^[17]

Once or twice a term, a Community Action Day is held, organised by the social service captains of each house, to raise money for a diverse number of charities. Every year in May, a prefect-organised program, the 'Merry Month of May', is held to raise money for social initiatives.

The Junior School Houses (Years K–6) are Moss, Woods, Marlton and Cintra.

The Senior School Houses (Years 7–12) are Mitre, Sarum, Hughes, Kilburn and Breen. Mitre, Sarum, Hughes and Kilburn are the four original school houses and were all created in 1922, all significant for their own reasons. When the school started to grow a fifth senior school house, Breen was created in 1987. The pastoral care system is based on a house structure which deals with all matters relating to a student's wellbeing or curriculum needs. Each student is placed in a house tutorial group which is overseen by a house tutor. There are five houses and therefore five house tutorial groups at each year level. A house contains students from Years 7 to 12. Each house is led by two co-heads. The members of each house are led by co-house captains and co-vice-captains. The houses meet on a regular basis.

The house tutor and heads of house work as a team to monitor the academic and personal progress of each student in the house tutorial group and house. Generally, the house tutor is the first and main point of contact between the parent and the school.

• Marjorie McQuade, represented Australia at the 1948 Summer Olympics at London and the 1952 Summer Olympics at Helsinki^[19][20]
• Marie Breen, politician^[21]
• Philip Dalidakis, politician^[22]
• Slava Grigoryan, guitarist^[23]
• Joy Hester, artist^[24]
• Isabel Huntington, footballer and former AFL Women's No. 1 draft pick^[25]
• Asher Keddie, actress^[26][27]
• Samantha Lane, TV presenter^[28]
• Faith Leech, Olympic swimmer, gold and bronze medalist at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia^[20]
• Andrew MacLeod, former United Nations humanitarian expert and former CEO of the Committee for Melbourne
• Eloise Mignon, actress^{[citation needed]}
• Radha Mitchell, actress^[29]
• Frances Newson, hockey player^[20]
• Anna O'Byrne, singer^[30]
• Jan Skubiszewski, member of Jackson Jackson^{[citation needed]}
• Dan Spielman, actor^[31]
• Nora Sumberg, artist^{[citation needed]}
• Brodie Summers, Olympic Mogul skier and World Cup silver medalist^{[citation needed]}
• Winnie Laing, AFL Women's footballer^[32]
• Sean Wroe, Australian sprinter, silver medalist in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. Wroe also represented Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.^[20]
• Tess Coady, Olympic snowboarder, bronze medalist at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China^[33]
• Elena Galiabovitch, Australian shooter, Women's 10-metre air pistol bronze medalist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Galiabovitch has represented Australia in both the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Elena was selected to be by the International Olympic Committee as one of six athletes to carry the Olympic flag at the Games opening ceremony in Tokyo.^[34]
• Col Pearse, Paralympic Swimmer, bronze medalist at the 2021 Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan^[35]

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