Sacré Cœur School

Sacré Cœur is a Roman Catholic, independent, day school for girls, located in Glen Iris, a south eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Established in 1888, the school caters for over 700 students from Prep to Year 12 and has an open-entry policy. It offers the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). The school has become renowned for their strong academic focus and consistently high levels of achievement, having come 7th out of all the schools in Victoria for VCE in 2013 and 1st out of all the Catholic schools for the second consecutive year.Sacré Cœur is a member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia and the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA) It is part of the international network of Sacré Cœur schools.In 2013, the school celebrated 125 years of schooling at their current Burke Road campus.HistoryThe School was founded by the French order of nuns, the Society of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) in 1888.Sacré Cœur, has its origins in the vision of Madeleine Sophie Barat, who founded the Society of the Sacred Heart in Paris in 1800. Growing up during the French Revolution in the small town of Joigny about 80 miles south of Paris, Sophie felt a strong call to religious life from an early age. Although her attraction was to a strictly contemplative life, her reflections led her to the realisation that an education based on Christian values was essential for a more just society to emerge from the upheaval of the revolution.