Sacre Coeur, a privately owned institution headquartered in Australia, was founded in 1888 and employs approximately 630 staff. It functions as a Roman Catholic, independent, day school for girls, located in Glen Iris, a south eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school caters to over 700 students from Prep to Year 12 and operates with an open-entry policy. Sacre Coeur offers the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) and is a member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, and the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA). It is also part of the international network of Sacré Cœur schools.