Thomas Carr College is a Roman Catholic, co-educational day school located in Tarneit in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is named after Thomas Joseph Carr, the second catholic archbishop of Melbourne. In 2006, the principal since the college's founding, Mr. Paul D'Astoli, was transferred and was succeeded by Bruce Runnalls. Thomas Carr College took its first group of 72 year 7 students in 1997. These students completed the College's first VCE classes in 2002. In 1997 the school was situated on a temporary site with only portable classrooms. After this beginning year, Thomas Carr College began to take form with the erection of the first buildings on the permanent site. The most noticeable difference between the first and second years was the number of students. In the second year the College greatly increased in size as a result of the growing population in the area and its key location in one of the growth corridors in the Melbourne's western suburbs. Since its origination, Thomas Carr College has been steadily growing, and increasing its presence on not only a regional level, but with the frequent exchange trips between Japan and Australia.