Kostka Hall

On 10 February 1937, Xavier College – Kostka Hall was established on South Road, Brighton, following a request from the then Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Daniel Mannix, for Xavier to establish a junior school in the southern suburbs. With an ongoing commitment to Jesuit/lay collaboration, Kostka Hall has been led by a lay Head of Campus since 1995.

In 1997, Kostka Hall celebrated its Diamond Jubilee which coincided with the final stages of a major building program. All classrooms were modernised and open learning areas created. A new gymnasium/multi-purpose hall complex, a new music house and a new administration centre were also established. To complete the building program, in 1998, a new library was created in the former administration building and a new Visual Arts wing was built adjacent to the New Street entrance.

In 2005, Xavier opened an Early Years Centre at the Kostka Hall campus, offering co-educational schooling from 3-year-old level to the end of Year 4. From Years 5 to 8, Kostka Hall remains a boys-only school.

Currently Xavier College – Kostka Hall has approximately 350 students, and covers an area of approximately eight acres, consisting of buildings, gardens and ovals.

Apart from not offering Italian at Years 7 and 8, the Kostka Hall campus offers the same curriculum and co-curricular programs as Xavier College – Burke Hall. At the completion of Year 8, boys from Kostka Hall move with the Burke Hall students and a number of new students to the Senior Campus in Barkers Road, Kew.

For further information about the Kostka Hall Early Years curriculum, please click here.

For further information about the Kostka Hall Middle Years curriculum, please click here.

All students have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of mainstream curriculum activities as well as others that enhance their overall personal and academic development. Some programs and activities are:

• Philosophy for Children
• A range of clubs (eg, chess, science, fitness, sewing)
• Night of Notables (Year 7)
• Instrumental Music program
• Interschool debating (DAV)
• Pastoral Care Programs
• Co-curricular sport program
• Artists-in-Residence
• Future Problem Solving
• Personal Development Programs
• Student magazine production
• Retreats and Reflection days.
• Outdoor Education experiences

In Year 8, students also have the opportunity to enhance and foster their leadership qualities and skills by participating in a range of Student Leadership programs. Leadership is presented within the context of service and being ‘men for others’.

The students’ spiritual development is a very important part of life at Kostka Hall. There is a chaplain and there are many opportunities for the students to celebrate the sacraments (for example, family and class Masses) and deepen their relationship with their Creator.

Xavier College – Kostka Hall is a wonderfully warm and friendly learning environment and its location on South Road, Brighton Beach is reflected in the title ‘Xavier by the Sea’.