Our School

Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak is a Catholic school in Melbourne, Australia, with approximately 950 girls from Prep to Year 12 with a co-educational Early Learning Centre at St Peter's Parish, Toorak. Loreto Toorak strives for excellence in all that it does. An extensive and challenging academic program is integral to the education of mind and heart that is cherished at Loreto. A love of learning is fostered by the delight with which specialist teachers in every subject share their passion for their subjects with the students.
The School adheres to Australian democratic principles of:
• Elected government
• The rule of law
• Equal rights for all before the law
• Freedom of religion
• Freedom of speech and association
• The values of openness and tolerance

These principles are embedded in our policies and curriculum and structure and are communicated to the School community through regular publications.

The students at Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak learn in an advanced technological environment, with a wireless network which allows for "anywhere, anytime" access to the online curriculum. There are also dedicated art and music facilities and "the Basement" Drama Centre which provides a creative, atmospheric and flexible teaching and learning area for Drama and Theatre Studies. The Sr. Ruth Winship Science Centre comprises of 5 state of the art science laboratories, equipped with electronic smart boards and the latest equipment.

Students leave Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak with a confident sense of self worth, a taste for excellence, and awareness of global issues, a social conscience, and instilled with a sense of responsibility to help build a better world.