Geelong Grammar is the latest Victorian school to contact parents over sexual abuse, calling on former students abused by staff members to come forward.
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In a letter to parents on Monday, principal Stephen Meek said the school had provided information about the conduct of some former staff members to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
He said some of the cases, dating back to the 1960s, had already been dealt with by the courts.
Former Geelong Grammar staff member Phillipe Trutmann was jailed in 2005 for sexually abusing more than 40 boys. Trutmann, a boarding house assistant at the Anglican co-educational school, abused eight to 13-year-old boys over a decade from 1985.
Mr Meek said the royal commission was preparing to publish notices in the media calling on any former students who were sexually abused while at the boarding and day school to come forward.
He said the school would send the notice to former students and the wider school community, encouraging them to do so, and would also provide the contact details of a counselling service.
"The school is appalled at any form of abuse," he said. "I commend the courage of all those who have already brought, and any who will bring, matter before the royal commission."
"The school deeply regrets the wrongful conduct by some of its former staff. I assure you that the current school leadership is doing all that it can to address these matters in an understanding and caring manner to support those who have been affected."
The Age revealed on Monday that Scotch College had for the first time acknowledged that at least five students had been abused at the prestigious school.
Students who were sexually abused at the Hawthorn private school have received compensation and an apology from the school.
In a letter to parents on Sunday, Scotch College principal Tom Batty said it was impossible to imagine the suffering caused by "those who betrayed the position of trust".
Xavier College recently revealed nine cases of sexual abuse from the 1960s and '70s and a teacher at Ivanhoe Grammar was stood down earlier this year after being charged with 33 sexual offences that allegedly took place more than two decades ago.
With Henrietta Cook
