Gladstone Park Secondary College
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Gladstone Park Secondary College is a public state school in Melbourne, Australia, founded in 1975.
It is situated in Melbourne's north-western suburbs and is the biggest in the region. It is a multicultural melting pot with students of over 30 ethnicities (including French and Irish), speaking over 50 languages attending.
The school has around 1500 matriculated students, a figure which has remained constant for over a decade. When it first opened, Gladstone Park Secondary School (GPSC) quickly became the largest school in terms of matriculated students within a 10km radius, a position which it still holds today. Its uniforms were brown and gold up until the early 1990's, when the school council introduced a uniform consisting of a white polo shirt with a green logo and grey cotton shorts in summer for boys and a green chequered dress for girls. The winter uniform consists of grey cotton pants and a green cotton jumper with a yellow emblem for both boys and girls. In winter there is also the option of a blue bomber jacket.
It has a large sports program which has seen over 20 teams win state championships in sports such as basketball and badminton and soccer.
The school has a special disability partnership with the local TAFE institutes, where most GPSC graduates enroll to do apprenticeships or diplomas. There are also a number of graduates who have successfully gone on to University institutions, the percentage significantly higher than surrounding public secondary schools.
The current principal of Gladstone Park Secondary College is Robert Lamb.
