Faith, Courage, Tolerance
Caroline Chisholm is proud to be part of Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese's system of 80 Catholic primary and secondary schools operating across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains providing more than 43,500 students with a high-quality, low fee Catholic education.
Caroline Chisholm College is a community committed to providing young women with a quality Catholic education which promotes a passion for learning, develops skills for living and inspires an ongoing search for meaning.
Faith, Courage, Tolerance
Our school is committed to creating a learning community where our students:
Our Namesake, Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm was a model for living a lay Christian life. She advocated for and strove to improve the lives of the marginalised people of her time, especially showing God’s love for new emigrants, women and families.
Her unique combination of gifts is encapsulated in the values of faith, courage, tolerance, dignity, compassion and justice. She lived these six values through service, so our scriptural mandate is lived here at the College through service.
Caroline Chisholm was an ordinary woman who led an extraordinary life. The Caroline Chisholm charism is the lens through which these values are enlivened in our relationships, in our teaching, in our welcome of all and through Caroline’s Footsteps, our social justice program.
Our Namesake, Caroline Chisholm
Our History
Caroline Chisholm College began in 1974 with twenty students being taught in the old church hall.
In 1976 the school moved to its current site in Glenmore Park, where the teaching initially took place in army huts. Throughout the 1980s a comprehensive building program was undertaken, providing permanent buildings for 600 students.
The 1990s was a time of rapid growth in the student population as the Glenmore Park area saw an increase in development. In 1997, the school was restructured to become a 7-12 college. The first HSC class graduated in the year 2000 with much success.
The college has continued to transform over the last twenty years, adding specialist facilities to support the broad curriculum offered.
The College emblem was designed to capture symbolically the key elements of our community. It represents the religious life, educational culture and the geographical environment of the College - at the base of the Blue Mountains and beside the Nepean River.
The College has celebrated outstanding results in NAPLAN and HSC results over many years, through a long tradition of understanding girls as learners and how to engage and enhance their potential.
Our Policies and Procedures
Caroline Chisholm has a number of policies and procedures that govern various aspects of our school life.
School Annual Report
Providing parents, carers and the wider community with information about various aspects of school performance and development.