Australind Senior High School

Australind Senior High School
Location
Australind, Western Australia
Australia
Coordinates 33°16′42″S 115°43′45″E / 33.2782°S 115.7292°E / -33.2782; 115.7292Coordinates: 33°16′42″S 115°43′45″E / 33.2782°S 115.7292°E / -33.2782; 115.7292
Information
Type Public School
Motto Through Endeavour, Success
Established 1987
Principal Gregory Slavin[1]
Enrolment 1263 (2015)
Campus Australind
Website http://www.australind.wa.edu.au/

Australind Senior High School is a comprehensive public high school located in Australind, a regional centre 163 kilometres (101 mi) south of Perth, Western Australia.

The campus is made up of modern buildings that overlook the Brunswick River.

The school was established in 1987 and by 2012 had an enrolment of 982 students between Year 8 and Year 12, 34 (3%) of whom were Aboriginal.

The school was not officially opened until 1994 after operating for 7 years.

A 14-year-old student stabbed two classmates during lunchtime in 2006 and went to trial in 2007,[2] the boy was acquitted following his giving evidence that he brought the knife to school in order to defend himself and that three other students had initially provoked the fight.[3]

In 2007 the school received federal government funding to implement the Success for Boys program.[4]

Enrolments at the school have fluctuated over the last six years. Enrolments have been 983 students in 2007, 1216 in 2008, 1157 in 2009, 1010 in 2010, 982 in 2011, 982 in 2012, 977 in 2013, 1007 in 2014 and 1263 in 2015. The jump in enrolments in 2015 being the addition of a Year 7 cohort moving to high school and the half cohort departing.

The school came third overall in the 2012 and 2013 Country Week carnival behind cross-town rivals Bunbury Senior High School who won and Albany Senior High School who came second.[5]

See also

List of schools in rural Western Australia

References

  1. ↑ "Department of Education Schools online". 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  2. ↑ "ABC News - Teen to face trial accused of school stabbing". 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "ABC News - Boy acquitted over schoolyard stabbing". 2007. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
  4. ↑ "ABC News - High School scheme to motivate male students". 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "Bunbury Mail - Bunbury Senior High crowned Country Week Champions". 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.

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