Inside MLC
Methodist Ladies' College Perth was founded by the Methodist Church of Australia in 1907 and held its first classes in February 1908 with 31 day girls and 23 boarders. The school is now part of the Uniting Church (the church union of 1977 brought the Methodist tradition under the broader Uniting umbrella), and the campus sits on a generous Claremont site close to the Swan River.
MLC is non-selective, takes around 1,000 girls from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12, and has roughly 90 boarders. It sits directly next door to Christ Church Grammar School, sharing a boundary fence — MLC's own program for the partnership is called Crossing the Fence. Senior girls can take certain Year 11 and 12 courses at CCGS, and the schools run a combined choir and co-ed debating teams. For many MLC girls, the social rhythm of senior years is shaped as much by joint events with CCGS as by anything happening on their own campus.
Academically, MLC sits in the top tier of Perth girls' schools. For the class of 2023 the school reported 49 girls at an ATAR of 90 or above, 34 at 95+ and seven above 99, from a Year 12 cohort of 131 of whom 98 sat the ATAR pathway. WA stopped publishing official school median ATARs after 2022, so treat any per-school median quoted elsewhere as an estimate; MLC's own results announcements are the reliable source.