Kent Street Senior High School
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East Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia Australia |
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| Coordinates | 31°59′04″S 115°53′33″E / 31.9845°S 115.8925°ECoordinates: 31°59′04″S 115°53′33″E / 31.9845°S 115.8925°E |
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| Type | Public, Co-educational |
| Motto | Courage |
| Established | 1940 |
| Principal | Kath Ward |
| Enrolment | 768 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Red, blue & white |
| Website | www.kentstreetshs.wa.edu.au |
 The Admin Block of Kent Street Senior High School. |
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Kent Street Senior High School is a government high school located in the suburb of East Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia.
Over 50 percent of students attending Kent Street live in neighbouring or other school districts. This is largely due to Kent Street's specialist programs (Aeronautics, Cricket, Fashion & Design).
The Western Australian Parliament received many proposals for a high school to situated south of the river through the 1920s but a lack of funds mostly due to the depression meant that the school did not eventuate. In 1932 a survey was conducted finding that 410 post primary age children were living in the South Perth and Victoria Park areas. Construction of the first building commenced in 1939 and the school commenced operations known as Kent Street Central School in 1940 with 354 students.
The buildings of the school are heritage listed and described as a complex of inter-war Free Classical style brick and tile buildings and grounds.
The school has a notable cricket heritage. School teams have entered Australian 5 Highs Cricket carnival, winning at Brisbane 1994, and at Melbourne 2000 and 2005. The school hosted the carnival in 1996, 2001 and 2006.
The School is based primarily on its 10-acre (4.0 ha) campus on Kent Street in East Victoria Park. The campus of the school is divided into three levels, because of its sloping hill it was positioned on. The school has no breaking in age groups except for a Canteen Quad for lower-school students and an Upper School Quad of upper-school students.
The school began to offer a course in Aviation to Year 11 students in 1979. The first class was composed of 27 students. In 1988 the course was opened for lower school students to enrol in. Fundraising was required to purchase some of the equipment required and Joan Terry, wife of the late Paul Terry, donated an aircraft hangar in 1994. By 2000 the school had developed a partnership with Edith Cowan University to promote aviation education in Western Australia. The aviation course was one of the courses trialed in the Courses of Study roll-out in 2004 and became a TEE equivalent course.
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