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Ms. Harrap's office is located on the ground floor of the Kingsway Building, underneath the Hall.

Welcome to Mac.Rob, a selective entry high school for students in Years 9-12.

Established in 1934, Mac.Rob plays a vital and inclusive role as one of the four selective entry schools in Victoria by ensuring a sense of connection, belonging, and challenge for like-minded, high-achieving students.

Located on Boon Wurrung country in the leafy heart of Naarm (Melbourne), Mac.Rob is one of Victoria’s four selective entry high schools, and one of the top-scoring public schools in the state. Students at selective entry high schools are driven, self-motivated, and high achievers in maths and sciences, visual and performing arts, physical education, and humanities subjects. The role of a selective entry school is to ensure a sense of connection, belonging, and challenge for like-minded, high-ability students.

As a selective entry school, the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School is not zoned; we accept students from all across Victoria, provided they have successfully applied for and completed the Selective Entry Examination. This examination is held in the year preceding enrolment - i.e. for students enrolling in 2024, they will sit an entrance exam in 2023.

All Australian or New Zealand citizens, or students who hold a visa or ImmiCard, may apply for a place at Mac.Rob. Fee-paying international students enrolled in Victorian schools are not eligible to apply. Mac.Rob does not maintain a waitlist, and cannot enrol students to secure visa or immigration status.

Mac.Rob is a school for senior students in Years 9-12; we do not accept students in Years 7 or 8, or in their final year of VCE study. Our students typically attend another high school of their choosing for these junior years, before applying for and transitioning to Mac.Rob at Year 9, 10, or 11.

All non-staff visitors to the school must report to reception to check in/out and receive a visitor's lanyard before moving around the school grounds.

All non-staff visitors to the school must report to reception to check in and receive a visitor's lanyard.

Mac.Rob is a diverse and inclusive school. We are committed to supporting staff and students from a diverse range of faiths with a prayer room. 

The prayer room at Mac.Rob can be found on the Level 3 of the Kings way building, near K301 classroom. 

The space is a room for quiet reflection, meditation and prayer only. Students and staff are able to access this space during the school day until 3.30pm. Food and drink cannot be consumed in this space. This is not a space for communal meetings of staff or students. 

The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School traces its origin to the first Victorian State Secondary School - the Melbourne Continuation School - which opened in Spring Street in 1905.

The Melbourne Continuation School allowed young people to continue their education beyond Year 8. It was originally a  co-education school until a new school for the male students was opened at Forrest Hill in 1927. This was the beginning of Melbourne High School. The girls remained in the original Spring Street building, which was renamed as Melbourne Girls' High School. When this building was condemned in 1930, the students were moved to Government House at Ripponlea, until they moved again, in 1933, to State School No.1689 in King Street.

In 1934, Sir MacPherson Robertson, a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and inventor of the Freddo Frog and Cherry Ripe, made a gift of £100,000 pounds in honour of Victoria’s centenary, £40,000 pounds of which was to be spent providing a new girls' high school. The present building, designed by architect Norman Seabrook, was officially opened as The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School on November 7th, 1934.

More recent funding in the 1980s enabled Mac.Rob to expand, adding two further buildings which accommodate the Learning Resource Centre; dedicated Music, Visual Arts and Theatre learning areas; Information Technology and a well equipped Gymnasium.

In 1987, the school’s striking main building was deemed worthy of conserving and protecting for future generations, and given a National Trust Classification.

In 2022, a renovation of the Lakeside Building was undertaken to provide the school’s 1150 students with a state-of-the-art Learning Resource Centre, dynamic new classroom spaces, and integrated outdoor performance and recreation areas. This renovation is due to open in readiness for the 2023 school year.