2026-05-28
Toorak College（图拉克中学）Australia Study Guide: Programs, Entry Requirements, Costs and Student Life
A practical guide to studying at Toorak College (图拉克中学), a private girls' school at Mount Eliza on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne. Covers programs from Early Learning to VCE, international entry requirements, the 2026 international fee schedule, boarding and student life, all sourced from the school's official website.
If you are researching secondary schools in Australia, Toorak College (图拉克中学) is a name that comes up regularly for Melbourne families and for international families looking at Victoria. The school is at Old Mornington Road, Mount Eliza, on the Mornington Peninsula roughly an hour from central Melbourne, and describes itself on its official website as a private school with 150 years of history. It is predominantly a girls’ school, with a co-educational Early Learning Centre and a boarding house, Joan Ansett Hall, for girls in Years 7 to 12. Everything below comes from the school’s own website, checked on 5 August 2026, including the published 2026 international fee schedule.
What kind of school Toorak College is
Toorak College organises itself into four parts on its official site: Early Learning, Junior School (known as Wardle House), Senior School and Boarding. The campus covers 11.5 hectares with what the school describes as a 180-degree outlook over Port Phillip Bay. The school states it is open entry and non-selective, covering children from 3-year-old Kindergarten through to Year 12, with main entry points at 3-year-old Kindergarten, Prep, Year 5 and Year 7, and other year levels subject to available places.
For international families the decisive boundary is the official one: Toorak College states on its website that it is a registered provider for overseas students from Year 5 to Year 12. Its CRICOS registration is 00349D, with course codes 005454G (Senior) and 097816B (Primary). These registrations are what a student visa application is checked against, and the visa itself is a matter for the Australian Government rather than the school.
Programs: from Early Learning to the VCE
Toorak College’s curriculum runs in sequence from early childhood through to the senior years. The Early Learning Centre takes 3-year-old Kindergarten and 4-year-old Pre-Prep children, using play-based learning that the school says is inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach. Kindergarten is offered as 3-day, 4-day or 5-day programs, and Pre-Prep as 4-day or 5-day; specialist classes include Creative Arts, STEM-X (science, robotics, construction and technology), Performing Arts, Mandarin and library, and health and wellbeing. The school reports an Exceeding rating across all seven quality areas of the National Quality Standard for its Early Learning Centre — that is the school’s own account.
Wardle House covers Prep to Year 6 with inquiry-based learning and a strong focus on literacy and numeracy, with after-school care through OSHClub for Early Learning to Year 4 and the Norman Carson Library for Years 5 and 6. The Senior School is a girls-only environment for Years 7 to 12: Years 7 to 9 work around real-world problems and design thinking, including the school’s own Agile Learning subject, and Years 10 to 12 follow the VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education), supported by Growth Mentoring, a Specialist Futures program built on the Morrisby Report, and pathways work including mentoring, industry visits and holiday work experience.
Entry requirements for international students
Toorak College sets out a six-step enrolment process: request school information, submit an application with the application fee, attend a trial day (optional), interview, offer and acceptance, and orientation. Applications go through the online Admissions Portal, and the application fee is 150 AUD (2026 rate, GST-inclusive, non-refundable; schedule accessed 2026-08-05).
The International Enrolment Application Form asks for a signed application form, a copy of a passport or birth certificate, the most recent school report (translated), an AEAS test result, and a copy of an existing visa if there is one. Parents and students must meet with the Director of International Education and Boarding, or a representative, before enrolment, and the school suggests both parents or guardians attend where possible. One caveat worth knowing: the form currently published is dated July 2020 and lists the application fee as 260 AUD, while the 2026 fee schedule (accessed 2026-08-05) lists 150 AUD; where the two disagree, the current fee schedule is the operative figure. Once an offer is made, families have 10 business days to decide, and accepting the offer requires an admission fee of 1,000 AUD (2026 rate, non-refundable and non-transferable, including alumni membership).
Costs: the 2026 international fee schedule
All fee figures here come from the 2026 International Schedule Fees and Charges on the Toorak College website (accessed 2026-08-05). Tuition is set by year level: Years 5 and 6 are 44,018 AUD each per year, Years 7 and 8 are 46,698 AUD each, and Years 9 to 12 are 51,392 AUD each. A Resource and Activity fee applies on top, from 364 to 2,396 AUD by year level, so the combined annual total ranges from 44,822 AUD in Year 6 up to 53,788 AUD in Year 9. Boarding is 42,012 AUD per year (including 1,128 AUD GST) for local and international students alike.
A few fixed charges sit outside tuition in the 2026 schedule (accessed 2026-08-05): the application fee of 150 AUD, the admission fee of 1,000 AUD on acceptance, and a Capital Development Levy of 800 AUD per family per year that is not included in tuition. International tuition is billed in two instalments, in November and April; paying the full year’s tuition in one payment before 12 December 2025 earns a 3.5% discount on the tuition portion only. Sibling discounts apply to tuition — 5% for a second child, 15% for a third and 50% for a fourth — with boarding and activity fees excluded. Withdrawal requires a full term’s written notice; without it, a payment of 27.5% of the annual tuition (GST-inclusive) applies. International students in Years 5 to 12 must have a laptop, with purchase requirements provided with offer documents, and the school notes it must not be bought overseas. Overseas Student Health Cover is arranged by the school through Medibank Private, with the cost varying with visa length.
Student life and boarding
Toorak College’s boarding house, Joan Ansett Hall, takes girls in Years 7 to 12, both local and international, with full boarding, weekly boarding and casual boarding options. Year 12 students have single rooms; Years 7 to 11 share doubles. Boarding includes chef-prepared meals, supervised study and evening tutors, and the on-campus English Language Support Centre supports students from their first day in mainstream classes through to graduation — a practical point for students whose first language is not English.
The facilities the school lists include the Swift Science and Technology Centre, the Marjorie Williams Sports Centre, athletics and hockey fields, diving and swimming pools, the Year 9 Illuminate Centre, and the 800-seat Mary Herring Hall theatre. For 2026 the term dates are: Term 1 from 27 January to 2 April, Term 2 from 21 April to 19 June, Term 3 from 14 July (13 July for Years 11–12) to 18 September, and Term 4 from 5 October to 8 December. Boarding students return before each term and the boarding house closes over holidays, so families living overseas should plan holiday accommodation ahead of time.
Planning the application
A realistic Toorak College application plan looks like this: confirm the child’s age matches an open entry point (3-year-old Kindergarten, Prep, Year 5 or Year 7 are the main ones), prepare the document set (application form, translated school report, AEAS result, passport or birth certificate copy), submit through the Admissions Portal with the application fee, attend the interview, and on receiving an offer decide within 10 business days and pay the admission fee. Budgets should fold in tuition, the Resource and Activity fee, boarding and the Capital Development Levy, with the understanding that figures change year to year.
This guide repeats only what Toorak College publishes on its own website, checked 5 August 2026, and the school’s self-descriptions should not be read as rankings or comparisons. Visa eligibility and health cover sit with Australian Government requirements rather than the school, and details change, so the official website is the reference for current figures. If you would like to work through how these requirements apply to a specific child’s age, language background and budget, our advisers can help you map the program options, documents, timeline and costs together.