Grange P-12 College

Baker Chirnside The Grange P–12 College is a Prep to Year 12 government school located in the outer western suburb of Hoppers Crossing, Melbourne, Australia.

The Grange P–12 College has a student population of 1927, offering a curriculum for years P–12 split over two campuses, Callistemon (P–6) and Deloraine (7–12).

Located in the City of Wyndham, approximately 30 minutes drive south west of the Melbourne CBD, The Grange College was initially opened as a secondary school in 1993.

The City of Wyndham is said to be the fastest growing community in Victoria with a population of approximately 143,000, having increased by 50+% in the last ten years.

Local employment opportunities are diverse and include high tech industry, retail, intensive horticulture, and some major tourist attractions.

The college has developed plans for further improvement and this will provide a new gymnasium and artificial turf covering for some play areas.

The Team Small Group innovation was premised on the notion that adolescence is a complex social/emotional developmental stage which needs to be recognised and addressed by educators.

Other key concepts came out of literature associated with Ted Sizer and the Coalition of Essential Schools coming from the United States.

The Team Small Group model was developed in Germany in the early 1970s as a reaction against an education system that practiced predominant streaming of students.

The exchange of ideas within the table group facilitates cognitive learning processes and "liberates from personal perception and spontaneous opinions from the egocentric perspective.

"[4] Team Small Group was introduced from the very beginning of The Grange's establishment and survived as an organisational model with relative stability for a number of years, however by the time George Perini (College Principal 1999–2006) and Angelique den Brinker (College Principal 2006–2014) were appointed, more traditional school structures were introduced, in response to changing area demographics, student opinion data, analysis of test results and emerging educational trends The school was used to film Chris Lilley's Jonah from Tonga.

It was filmed as the fictitious Holy Cross High School in a lower socioeconomic area in the outer western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.