Ashwood High School
Ashwood High School is a coeducational public school located in Ashwood, Victoria, Australia. Ashwood offers a wide range of academic subjects and in 2016 introduced an Accelerated Curriculum and Enrichment Program (ACE). This program is unique in that it is the only secondary school in the seat of Burwood with an accelerated learning program. As of November 2019, the curriculum has expanded to include an extensive arts programme. In early 2013 the school was allowed a grant to rebuild the majority of the classroom facilities, which includes the Middle School Centre (opened in late 2014), as well  as the Senior School Centre, which opened in 2016. History. Jordanville Technical School was the first secondary school located in the area and it opened in 1912, followed by Ashwood High School in 1958. Ashwood College was formed in 1988 from the merger of Ashwood High School and Jordanville Technical School. The new school was located on the High School site, while the Technical School site, across the road, was eventually redeveloped for housing in 1993. Ashwood High School (formerly Ashwood Secondary College / Ashwood College) was renamed 'Ashwood High School' in 2016. Notification of the name change appeared in the  Victoria Government Gazette No. G3 Thursday 21 January 2016. In 2021, Ashwood High School received another grant from the Victorian Government to build a dedicated STEM centre, which is designed for forthcoming STEM subjects that will be added. 2021 also introduced the subdivision of the school into a Middle School and a Senior School. House system. The School uses a house system to group students, based on colours and the historic people on the $10 (AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson) $20 (John Flynn), $50 (Edith Cowan), $100 (Dame Nellie Melba). The corresponding colour of the bank note is  used to determine the colour: Students are sorted randomly into houses on the first day in Year 7.