[4] The College has a non-selective enrolment policy and in 2007 catered for approximately 1,550 students from the Early Learning Centre (ELC) to Year 12, including 100 boarders.

[citation needed] By 1938 the East Melbourne buildings were at maximum capacity, and the college council began a search for a new site for the school.

In 2008 PLC opened a new extension to the Boarding House, adding sixty individual bedrooms for senior girls, new bathrooms, three music rooms, a laundry and one computer lab.

[9] PLC is divided into three school zones: The Early Learning Centre (ELC) caters for students from 6 months to five years of age.

The academic program for three-, four- and five-year-old children is influenced by the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education.

Students at this stage are introduced to mathematics, language, reading, writing, science, social studies, drama, dance and movement, and Christian Education, through individual and group activities.

[13] The program for children under three years of age is designed to develop basic skills such as independence, listening, communication and sharing.

Indoor and outdoor activities are utilised in order to encourage development in cognitive, social, emotional and motor areas.

[16] Students in Year 9 also undertake a semester of a program called Outlook, which involves examining public transport, sustainability, accessibility and charity work.

Furthermore, the school offers a wide range of extracurricular activities including involvement in music concerts such as the annual Gala Night held in August, optional chess tournaments and more.

[17] Musical and drama performances are held by the school each year to cater for students with an interest in an instrument, singing, acting, dancing or backstage.

PLC also features a number of annual traditions, such as House Concerts and massed choirs and orchestras on stage at Hamer Hall, for the Senior School Speech Night.

The music director from 1915 to 1935 was the Bohemian-born pianist Edward Goll, a pupil of Emil von Sauer, grand-pupil of Franz Liszt, and teacher of many fine Australian musicians such as Margaret Sutherland and Nancy Weir.

From Years 4 to 12, there are a wide range of outdoor, adventure, curriculum and special interest camps including art, biology, Christian Convention, The Duke of Edinburgh Award, IB, geography, music, physics, leadership, astronomy, skiing, rowing and surfing.

PLC also participates in the full range of sports on offer by Girls' Sport Victoria: athletics, basketball, badminton, cricket, cross country, diving, golf, hockey, netball, soccer, softball, swimming, indoor cricket, tennis, volleyball, and water polo, as well as timetabled physical education classes with a broader focus on skills and fitness.

[11][a] Among these women are Helen Mitchell, the Soprano, best known as Dame Nellie Melba;[20] Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, the author published as Henry Handel Richardson;[21] Marion Phillips, politician and the first Australian woman to win a seat in a national parliament;[22] and Vida Goldstein, Suffragette and the first woman to stand for election to the Federal Parliament of Australia.