Charlton is a rural town serving a farming community situated 240 km north-west of Melbourne and 110 km north-west of Bendigo. The township is located on the Calder Highway and the Avoca River. The school has a student population of 152 drawn from farming and town areas. Charlton College has 33.83 FTE staff with a mix of 2 Principal Class Officers (Principal and Assistant Principal), 25 teaching staff and 6.83 Education Support Staff. Charlton College administers the North Central Cluster College (NCCC) campus on behalf of the 7 schools that make up this cluster. The NCCC offers technology subjects to all cluster schools in years 9-10, VCE and VET. The College curriculum offerings are expanded by cooperation between schools in the North Central Cluster through video conferencing links, technology and other provision through the North Central Cluster Centre. Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) curriculum operates across years P-10. Early Years literacy and numeracy programs operate in the junior school, while VCE, VET and VCAL subjects are offered to Year 10-12 students on the P-12 site. At the end of 2010 the College embarked on a building program to house the primary sector of the college as well as a Science and Language centre on the Charlton College site.