St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe


St Patrick's College is a private, Catholic day school for boys, situated on the waterfront in Shorncliffe, north of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.
Established by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1952, the college currently enrols approximately 1340 students across eight grades.

Sporting

St Patrick's is one of eight member schools of the Associated Independent Colleges and participates in that association's sporting competitions for high school students and junior school students. The college has had success in AIC, winning 5 aggregate cross country running championships, a first VI volleyball premiership in 2014, a first XI cricket premiership and a first XV rugby premiership in 2018. The school also won the AIC aggregate chess championship in 2017.

House system

There are nine houses at SPC: Coffey, Kennedy, Mooney, O'Rourke, Quane, Rice, Ryan, Treacy and Xavier. The 2019 House Championship was won by joint-winners Ryan and Xavier.

Notable alumni

On 15 February 2010, twelve-year-old Elliot Fletcher was stabbed in the bathroom by a thirteen-year-old classmate before dying shortly upon arrival at hospital. The two students found themselves in a bullying situation at the Catholic school.