Attached is the information and nomination forms for the 2025 College Council elections. School council elections are held in February or March each year and must be completed by 31 March. All parents or guardians of students enrolled at the school are eligible to vote for parent members, staff vote for Department employee members and students vote for student members. Community members are co-opted by the school council.
Nomination forms are to be completed and returned to the College Office by Friday 14th March, 2025.
What is a school council and what does it do?
All government schools in Victoria have a school council. School councils are legal entities that are given powers to set the broad directions of a school in accordance with their constituting Orders and the Education and Training Reform Act 2006. In doing this, a school council is able to directly influence the quality of education that the school provides for its students.
Who is on the school council?
For all schools with a student cohort of Year 7 and above, there are several possible categories of school council membership:
A mandated elected parent member category – more than one-third of the total members must be from this category. Parents and Guardians of children attending the school are eligible for membership in this category.
A mandated elected school employee member category – members of this category may make up no more than one-third of the total membership of school council. The principal of the school is automatically a member of this category.
A mandated elected student member category(two positions) – members of this category are enrolled at the school and in Year 7 or above.
An optional community member category – members are co-opted by a decision of the council because of their special skills, interests or expertise. DET employees are not eligible to be a Community member.
A small number of school councils have Nominee members.
fact-sheet-1-school-council-elections-information-for-parents
form-2-notice-of-election-and-call-for-nominations-898
form-3-self-nomination-form-for-parent-member-category-899
form-4-nomination-form-for-parent-member-category-900
form6 det nomination form
Fact Sheet 4 Info for Parents of students
form6 student nomination form