Concordia College (South Australia)

Concordia College (CC) is an ELC–12 independent, co-educational, Lutheran school with campuses located in the Highgate and Blackwood areas of Adelaide, South Australia.

Concordia College was founded by W. F. Peters, a Lutheran pastor in the Victorian country township of Murtoa.

Peters purchased a private school founded in 1887 by T. W. Boehm, and re-established it in 1890 as a boys' college and training ground for future pastors and teachers.

[citation needed] Years 11 & 12, students are taught per the curriculum of the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE).

Concordia's music program has seen a number of ensemble groups participate in ABODA, Generations In Jazz (GIJ) as well as interstate and overseas performances.

[citation needed] Students at Concordia College also have opportunities to engage in a range of comprehensive arts and design programs.

[citation needed] Co-curricular programs and activities offered include national subject competitions, career counselling and work experience, excursions, field camps and instrumental music tuition.

Musicals presented have included:[citation needed] Others in previous years have included: L'il Abner, Carousel, My Fair Lady, Annie Get Your Gun, The Boy Friend, Fiddler on the Roof, The Pirates of Penzance, Calamity Jane, Viva Mexico, Ruddigore, HMS Pinafore, Can You Imagine, Free As Air, A Penny For a Song, God So Loved, Where Is God, Anything Goes, Tom Sawyer, Salad Days, and Trial By Jury.

The sports offered at the college include: basketball, cricket, cross country, football, hockey, netball, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball.

Concordia College at Murtoa, c.1890s
The college at Highgate on opening day, 1905
Gymnasium team in front of the main building, c.1921