Box Hill High School

Box Hill High School is a co-educational public secondary school located on the corner of Middleborough Road and Whitehorse Road in the eastern suburb of Box Hill in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.With an enrolment of 1,084 students (as of 2012), it caters for students from years 7 through to 12. Year 11 and 12 students undertake the VCE program.Box Hill High School offers SEAL and engineering programs.HistoryEstablished in 1930 as a single-sex boys school, Box Hill High School is now a co-educational school. In 2007-2009, a large upgrade of the facilities, funded by the Victorian State Government, was undertaken. These upgrades included the creation of a number of new classrooms, a new gym, library, numerous computer labs and the refurbishment of existing science classrooms. A few classrooms still have original blackboards and facilities from the school's opening but the majority have been replaced.Accelerated Program (SEAL)Box Hill High School runs an extensive Select Entry Accelerated Learning Program (SEAL) for gifted students, which teaches the curriculum to these students at an accelerated rate. Box Hill was only the second public school in Victoria to introduce such a program. Entrance to the program is selective, and determined by examinations undertaken by the students in Year 6. Within the program, syllabus from Years 7-10 are compacted into three years along with curriculum enrichment and extension. Year 9 students in the Accelerated Program have the option of various pathways. These pathways include a fourth year of an accelerated/extended nature, a partial Year 10 and partial VCE, and full VCE. Students who proceed to a full VCE in the fourth year may also choose to study extra units at VCE level and to complete an extended VCE taken over three years rather than the usual two. Students are strongly encouraged to take the extended VCE rather than the two year VCE, regardless of their plans for the future.