Waverley Christian College is an inter-denominational and co-educational independent Christian school with the main campus in the outer Eastern Melbourne suburb of Wantirna South and an additional campus which opened in Narre Warren South in 2012. The Wantirna South campus is located on the same property as CityLife Church, alongside the Eastlink Tollway with exits on High Street Road.The school has grown enormously since its beginning over 30 years ago, where it had only a handful of students and a couple of teachers. There are still members of the school faculty that were there in 1978. The school has now reached maximum enrolments at the Wantirna South campus.HistoryOriginally established in 1978 as Parkmore Full Gospel College by Parkmore Full Gospel Church, the church and its school merged with Waverley Christian Fellowship in 1983. The College and Church were moved to their present site in Wantirna South in 1989.The College has more than 1350 students, with over 550 in Primary and more than 450 in the Secondary School at Wantirna South Campus and approximately 150 Prep to Year 7 students at the Narre Warren South Campus. The College has a great academic record, always achieving highly in VCE scores.The College is set up as a ministry of CityLife Church in Knox City, a large, local charismatic Megachurch with more than 7000 attendees.
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