Keilor Downs College is single campus secondary college located on the north-western edge of metropolitan Melbourne. The student population (and the teaching staff) reflect the many different nationalities present in the surrounding community.

The college is recognised as providing a safe and caring learning environment with significant academic achievement, attracting students from a broad geographic area.

The college has a specific student wellbeing structure and is divided into four vertical Houses. Each House has approximately 350 students from Years 7-12 and about 30 teaching and support staff. House management teams support students and teaching staff and consist of a House Leader, coordinators, a Teacher assistant and an Activities assistant.

We believe students learn best with a teacher who knows them well and most students are taught by the same group of teachers from their house. Students are assigned to a Home Group within their house and their home group teacher will stay with them for the six years of their secondary education, developing a real understanding of their abilities and learning needs.

A range of student leadership programs is provided across all year levels to encourage student participation. The House structure provides great opportunity for student leadership, with House captains and year level representatives elected for each year level, resulting in a youth parliament of forty eight students.

STUDENTS at Keilor Downs College are giving up their spare time to make people's stay in hospital a little less onerous, perhaps even enjoyable.

The school's leadership group is volunteering at Sunshine Hospital following the formation in March of a partnership between the school and Western Health.

Happy helpers: Trinh, Chelsea, Thanh, Anh and Ngan are volunteering at Sunshine Hospital

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