Grounds, Buildings and Facilities
Melbourne High School has one campus, in South Yarra. This campus is split into five building blocks. These are: the Twenties building (built in 1927, refurbished in 1995), the Nineties building (built in 1992), the Round building, the Junior Science Block (built in 2000) and the Art Building (built in 2008).
The Twenties building, which is Heritage listed, consists of three floors. The base level contains the school canteen, the dining hall, two IT rooms and four rooms devoted to mathematics. The ground level serves multiple purposes. The south wing of the ground floor generally functions as geography and mathematics rooms. The north wing of the ground floor is devoted to physics but also contains an extra lecture room. Between the north and south wings is the school's Memorial Hall, the principal's office and the offices of the assistant principals. The first floor of the Twenties building is also split into two wings. The north wing is assigned to history, LOTE and politics. The south wing is assigned to chemistry.
The Nineties building, built in the 1990s under principal Ray Willis, includes four floors. The ground floor and first floors are used by the South Yarra Sports Centre, an organization that provides its facilities both to the outside public and to students of Melbourne High. This ground floor contains a gym, and the first floor contains a weights room and cardio room. The secoond floor contains rooms used for biology, commerce related subjects and music. The third floor is used for English and also contains the school's library.
The science block consists of four science labs split over two levels. These science rooms are generally used only for year 9 and year 10 general science, with other rooms being used for the more specific VCE subjects of chemistry, physics and biology. The Arts Building was completed in the year 2009. It consists of three floors, each containing multiple rooms devoted to the visual and performing arts. These also contain computers and media rooms.
In addition, the school's grounds include a hockey field, tennis courts, an oval (The Woodfull-Miller oval) for cricket and various codes of football, cricket nets, netball courts and basketball courts for sporting purposes. These are accompanied by the 'hockey pavilion', which overlooks the hockey field, the 'Old Boys Pavilion', which overlooks the oval, and the Cadet HQ, also near the oval.
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