Mary MacKillop College, Wakeley Mary MacKillop College, Wakeley Mary MacKillop Catholic College is a Catholic secondary school for girls located in Wakeley, New South Wales, Australia, providing Catholic education to the Smithfield, Fairfield, Cabramatta and Villawood parishes in the Fairfield area of Sydney. The school was founded as Rosary High School in 1946 in Fairfield, while the Sisters of St Joseph, a teaching order founded by Mary MacKillop, have been engaged in the area since 1931. In its current form the college was established in 1991, and is one of the newest schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney. Mary MacKillop Catholic Colleges emphasises community,
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