Clontarf Aboriginal College
Clontarf Aboriginal College is a co-educational Aboriginal college for indigenous youth aged between 15 and 18 years, located in the Perth suburb of Waterford in Western Australia. Since 2000 the college has also been the centre for the Clontarf Football Academy run by the Clontarf Foundation a program of Australian rules football for indigenous youth.
| Clontarf Aboriginal College | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
Waterford , Western Australia Australia | |
| Coordinates | 32°00′54″S 115°53′38″E |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, co-educational |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic, Serbian Orthodox |
| Established | 1901 |
| Enrolment | ~300 |
| Colour(s) | Navy blue & light blue |
| Website | Official website |
Western Australia Heritage Register | |
| Type | State Registered Place |
| Designated | 14 December 2001 |
| Reference no. | 2401 |
Opening in 1901, the facility has been used for a number of purposes since, most notably as an orphanage for boys operated by the Christian Brothers organisation, and also as a convent and as a day and boarding school. During World War II it was used as a training school for the Royal Australian Air Force. Through its history, it has housed and educated day boys and boarders, orphans, vagrants, children from disadvantaged families, child migrants and Aboriginal children.
In recent years the college chapel has been home to a small Serbian religious community (St Basil of Ostrog) belonging to the Serbian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand.