Applecross Senior High School

Applecross Senior High School
Location
Ardross, Western Australia Australia
Information
Type	Public, Co-educational, Day school
Motto	Achieve
Established	1958
Principal	Paul Leech
Enrolment	1,475 (15 March 2017)
Campus	Suburban
Colour(s)	Black, Green, Red & White
Website	www.applecross.wa.edu.au

Applecross Senior High School is a public, co-educational High School, located in Ardross, a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

Founded in 1958, it has traditionally been one of the top public high schools in the state of Western Australia, and consistently ranks academically within the top 10 non-selective secondary schools in the state. Applecross has produced two Rhodes Scholars.

Applecross runs dedicated art, tennis and chess programs, and has traditionally been dominant in these areas. It also runs Academic Extension classes, for those students talented in the areas of English, Maths, Science, Society and Environment, French and Japanese.

The school was opened in 1958 to service the rapidly growing south-of-the-river suburbs of the city of Perth, Western Australia. Today, around 1,500 students from Years 7 to 12 attend the school.

From about 1999 to 2002 the school underwent renovations to improve its layout for Education Elizabeth Constable launched the construction of a new library, visual arts block, science laboratory, a tiered auditorium, cafeteria and administration block. The upgrade will take four years to complete at an estimated cost of A$56 million.

The school crest is a combination of a black swan, signifying the proximity to the Swan River, with a hand holding a scimitar, emerging from a five-pointed crown (“issuant from an eastern crown or, a dexter hand holding a scimitar, in fess all proper”), the family crest of Sir Alexander Matheson Bt of Lochalsh, founder of the suburb of Applecross.

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