St Josephs College Hunters Hill

St Joseph's College (abbreviated as SJC and commonly called Joeys) is an independent Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys, conducted in the Marist Brothers tradition. It is located in Hunters Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Joeys currently caters for approximately 1,100 students from Year 7 to Year 12, including over 550 boarders, making it the largest all boys boarding school in Australia, and one of the largest in the southern hemisphere. The College is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA) and the association of Marist Schools of Australian (AMSA) The College opened in 1881 in a temporary wooden building, however, it has continued to expand its grounds and buildings since then. In 2006, Joeys saw the appointment of its first lay headmaster, Ross Tarlinton, who served from 2006 to 2017. He was succeeded in 2018 by another layman, Christopher Hayes and now Michael Blake.