Footscray City College

Footscray City College is a Year 7-12 and TAFE co-educational school in Melbourne, Australia. It is adjacent to Victoria University's Footscray Park campus, and Footscray Park itself. Approximately 1000 students attend, primarily from the local area. The college is on a spectacular site with views of the Maribyrnong River, Flemington Racecourse and the Melbourne CBD. The grounds are landscaped for student recreation, and are complemented by adjacent community playing fields and sporting facilities, including a large swimming and sporting complex belonging to Victoria University.
There are many facilities in the College including computer, creative arts, science, sport, multimedia, performing arts, cinema, film and TV studio, a Hospitality Skills Centre and horticultural facilities.
Each student in Years 7–10 studies the Learning Areas of Arts, English (including English as a second Language), Health and Physical Education, Languages other than English, Mathematics, Science, Technology and the Studies of Society and the Environment.
In Years 11, 12, and beyond, students are provided with a comprehensive range of pathways, including the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL), and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Certificate and Diploma courses in Film and Television Studies.
They have recently developed a "Futures Centre" for Year 9 and 10 students, where students undertake individually tailored programs with project based learning that is IT rich.
The "Footscray City College Film and Television School" had one of the highest VTAC first preferences to offers ratios of any tertiary institution in 2006. At 1.31, it was only bettered by four high demand universities, the International College of Hotel Management and the TAFE division of the Australian Maritime College. It also had the second lowest non-acceptance of offers at 3.45%, bettered only by the Sunraysia Institute of TAFE.