St Patrick's Marist College

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St Patrick's Marist College (SPMC) is a private Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school in Dundas, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It teaches about 1,100 students in Years 7 to 12.

The school began as St Patrick's primary school for boys in Harrington Street, The Rocks, founded by the Marist Brothers in 1872. It is the oldest Marist school in Australia and one of the country’s earliest Catholic secondary schools. A high school was added by 1875. In 1962 the school moved to Dundas, and the secondary section opened there in 1966. Coeducation started in 1985 with Year 11, and the school was renamed St Patrick's Marist College in 1992 when a Year 7 co-educational intake began.

The campus sits at the corner of Kirby Street and Kissing Point Road. The Harrington Courtyard keeps a link to the old site. There are three playing ovals, two basketball/netball courts, a Senior Yard, and a modern IT wing. The La Valla Centre is a multi-purpose space, the music centre was refurbished, and in 2020 a new three-storey building and a new library were added. The college also runs Wiyanga, a facility for students with high support needs.

SPMC belongs to the Association of Marist Schools of Australia and to the Metropolitan Catholic Schools, and is administered by the Catholic Education Office of the Diocese of Parramatta. The school has six homerooms named Chavoin, Edwin, Ludovic, Mackillop, Paul, and Xavier. The colours are bottle green and gold, and the motto is Esto Fidelis (Be Faithful). The principal is Paul Ryan.

The college has a sister school, Marist Nursery and Primary School in Viyalanmedu, Trichy, India. Each year students hold a walkathon to raise funds for the school, which the college helped to build and continues to support through visits.