Australian Islamic College is an independent, co-educational, primary and secondary school and tertiary college located in Perth, Western Australia, and Adelaide, South Australia. The school was founded in 1986 by Abdallah Saad Magar, with 49 students and three staff. As of , the school has students and staff spread across six campuses, five in the Perth suburbs of Dianella, Forrestdale, Henley Brook, Kewdale and Thornlie, and one in the Adelaide suburb of West Croydon.
History The school was established in 1986 as the Muslim Community School at Brisbane Street in Perth. In 1990 a second campus was opened in Thornlie to cater for students from grades K-10, and in 1996 a third campus was opened in the northern suburb of Dianella. In 2000 Kewdale was opened on the grounds of the former Kewdale Senior High School, which had amalgamated with Belmont Senior High School to reopen as Belmont City College. On 22 June 2017, the West Croydon campus was opened on the site of the former Islamic College of South Australia in the Adelaide suburb of West Croydon.
Controversies In 2007, Australian Islamic College was raided by 28 fraud squad officers and ten investigators from the Department of Education, Science and Training investigations unit. Abdallah Saad Magar and the Principal Aziz Magdi were charged with fraud offences against the governments of Australia and Western Australia. The charges related to falsifying records to indicate that more students were attending the school than actually were and thereby obtaining money for the school to which they were not entitled. The amount that was alleged to have been obtained fraudulently was , equivalent to in . Both were found guilty in the District Court on 31 March 2010. Abdallah Saad Magar appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court, however his application was denied.
Notable alumna
Fatima Payman
See also
Education in Australia List of schools in the Perth metropolitan area Islam in Australia
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