Kardinia International College

Kardinia International College is one of Australia’s high achieving world schools. It is an independent, co-educational, non-denominational school, providing a caring environment for more than 1900 local and international students from Kindergarten – Year 12. The College is located in Victoria’s second biggest city, Geelong, one hour by car or train from Melbourne.  

• The main 22-hectare campus is in Bell Post Hill, Geelong has a beautiful learning environment including gardens, world class buildings and sporting facilities. A state-of-the-art indoor Aquatic Centre was opened in 2016.
• In 2017, we established our Year 5 unique rural 11-hectare farm campus, Kardinia Grove, located ten minutes from the main campus. The Kardinia Grove experience gives our students a unique opportunity to develop self by engaging in authentic, place-based learning experiences that are both sustainable and community-minded.
• Kardinia Sum Pun, our Year 9 campus in Chiang Mai Northern Thailand, provides an optional eight-week programme, designed as an intensive “self-discovery journey”. It endeavours to give students a deep and lasting international mindedness, where an understanding, acceptance and respect for different cultures, different religions and different ways of life become a hallmark of their character.

• The three and four-year-old Kindergarten and Junior School children study the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.
• The Senior School provides a unique learning environment for students through a complete vertical curriculum in Years 7 - 10, which offers approximately 400 semester units enabling students to choose an individualised course of study suited to their ability levels, interests and needs, rather than their age.
• Year 11 and 12 students can choose to study either the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBDP) or the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).
• The extremely dedicated teachers are always ready to help students at any time.
• The emphasis at every year level at Kardinia International College is on academic rigour and we are renowned for the outstanding results our students achieve in their Year 12 examinations every year. Our IB results are always well above the world average and our VCE results are often the best in the region.
• Complementing the academic programme is a diversity of many co-curricular activities available in the arts, music, cultural, community service and sport.