Northern Bay College was formed in 2011 as a result of a merger of nine schools into one multi-campus College. Our aim is to provide a supportive, coordinated and consistent approach to the education and wellbeing of children and young people living in the Norlane and Corio area.

The process of regeneration of the Corio and Norlane government schools began in 2006 and was driven by the nine school communities working to ensure young people and their families in the northern suburbs of Geelong had access to high quality education in world class facilities. The refurbishment of the four junior campuses is nearly complete with extensive building work now required on the senior campus. Each campus in 2019 has newly constructed all weather sporting fields to support the SEED (Sporting Excellence Education Development) program.

Today Northern Bay College is a multi-campus school made up of four prep to year eight campuses and one year nine to year twelve campus. In addition to this the college also runs a Kindergarten, a Child Care Centre, a Family Centre and manages a Trade Training Centre. We also host two Geelong English Language Centre Outposts and run a Hands on Learning program.

The college has a long history of welcoming families from a refugee and asylum seeker background of Karen ethnicity from refugee camps along the Thai/Burmese border. In 2013 the college began to enrol families of middle eastern ethnicity, arriving mainly from refugee camps via Pakistan and Indonesia. More recently we have seen Karenni immigrants from Burma along with Arabic speaking refugees from Iraq and Syria. Currently thirty percent of students have a first language other than English with eleven percent of our students being of Middle Eastern origin and nine percent Karen / Karenni. Seven percent of our students are indigenous.