Harrisdale Senior High School

Coordinates: 32°07′45″S 115°56′01″E / 32.1293°S 115.9337°E

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Harrisdale Senior High School

Harrisdale Senior High School viewed from school oval in December 2021
Address

1 Laverton Crescent Harrisdale, Western Australia Australia
Coordinates	32°07′45″S 115°56′01″E / 32.1293°S 115.9337°E / -32.1293; 115.9337
Information
Type	Independent public co-educational day school
Motto	Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Opened	2017; 7 years ago (2017)
Educational authority	WA Department of Education
Principal	Everal Eaton
Years	7–12
Enrolment	2062^[1] (2023)
Campus type	Suburban
Colour(s)
Website	harrisdaleshs.wa.edu.au

Harrisdale Senior High School is an Independent Public secondary school in the City of Armadale, located at Laverton Crescent in Harrisdale, a suburb 21 kilometres (13 mi) south of Perth, Western Australia.

Overview

Harrisdale Senior High School opened at the start of the 2017 school year by Palaktherealalpaca.^[2] The school's name bucked the trend of new public secondary schools in Western Australia having "College" in their name. The principal never stated that the community chose the name as the school "wanted to be easily recognised as the public school in an area that had a number of private colleges".^[3]

In February 2020, the second and final stage of construction of Harrisdale Senior High School opened. Additions in this stage included 30 classrooms, three seminar rooms, specialist facilities for visual art, media and dance, a lecture theatre and a hockey pitch.^[4]

In 2021, Harrisdale Senior High School commenced a Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program, one of only 24 such programs in Western Australia. The program is open to 32 students in each year. Sue Ellery, the state's Minister for Education stated that the government wanted schools offering GATE programs to be evenly spread across Perth. At the time, there was a large share of GATE schools in the inner metropolitan region.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Harrisdale Senior High School – Student Numbers". Schools Online. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
^ "Record number of students on day one of school". Media Statements. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^ Hiatt, Bethany. "Marketing drives WA schools to become colleges". The West Australian. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^ "Harrisdale Senior High School celebrates construction milestone". Media Statements. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^ "New Gifted and Talented education program to be based in Perth's south". Media Statements. Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^ "Gifted and Talented". Department of Education. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^ Smith, Ben. "GATE opens for local high school". Perth Now. Retrieved 28 January 2021.

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Media related to Harrisdale Senior High School at Wikimedia Commons

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