De La Salle College Ashfield

De La Salle College Ashfield
Logo used from c. 2010 to December 2022
Location
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2131

Australia
Coordinates33°53′3″S 151°7′31″E / 33.88417°S 151.12528°E / -33.88417; 151.12528
Information
TypeIndependent, comprehensive, single-sex school, secondary school, day school
MottoLatin: Esto Vir
(Used in context as "to be the best man you can be." If translated directly from Latin it means "Be a man")
Religious affiliationDe La Salle Brothers
DenominationRoman Catholic
Established10 December 1916 (1916-12-10)
StatusClosed
Closed20 December 2022 (2022-12-20)
Staff~58
Key people
Years712
GenderBoys
Enrolmentc. 384 (2021)
LanguageAustralian English
CampusSuburban
Houses
  • Maurice
  • Bernard
  • Kevin
  • John
ColoursBlue and white   
SportsMetropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association
YearbookSignum Feidei (1926–1945)
Blue & White (1945–2023)
AffiliationCatholic Secondary Schools Association NSW/ACT
AlumniOld Boys
Websitedlsashfield.catholic.edu.au

De La Salle College was an independent Roman Catholic comprehensive single-sex secondary day school for boys, located in Ashfield, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 2022, the school announced plans to amalgamate with the adjacent girls' high school, Bethlehem College, and St Vincent's Primary School, due to increasing demand for co-educational schools in inner Sydney. Since 2023, the former campus does not exist as an independent school but remains a campus of the co-eduational college St Vincent's College Ashfield, that was formed in the amalgamation.

Established in 1916 by the De La Salle Brothers and Vincentian Fathers, the college catered to students in Year 7 to Year 12 from the inner-west Parishes of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The college was under the patronage of the Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher. De La Salle College was one of 18 Lasallian Schools in Australia, and in the 1970s became the first Catholic high school in Australia to have a lay headmaster.

The school is affiliated with the Catholic Secondary Schools Association NSW/ACT, and the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCC).

In education, the college was fully accredited in 2018 to run the Newman Selective Gifted Education Program (the Gifted and Talented program), which caters towards the significant learning needs of capable students. The program is currently being facilitated in a number of the Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools within Sydney Catholic Schools. The school also used Inquiry-Based Learning approach, focusing mainly on the Solution Fluency framework. They offered a number of co-curricular activities and experiences, including immersions to Lasallian schools overseas. The school followed the NSW Syllabus and Australian Curriculum.