Lynwood Senior High School
| Lynwood Senior High School | |
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| Location | |
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Parkwood, W.A Australia |
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| Coordinates | 32°02′32″S 115°54′59″E / 32.04228°S 115.91645°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Public, Co-educational, Secondary |
| Motto | Sincerity |
| Established | 1974 |
| Principal | Geraldine Hardy |
| Enrolment | 900 Semester 1 2011 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | yellow, light blue and navy blue |
| Website | http://lynwood.wa.edu.au/ |
Lynwood Senior High School is a public co-educational high school in Perth, Western Australia. The school is located on Metcalfe Road in the Perth suburb of Parkwood.
The school was established in 1974 and caters for students in Year 8 to 12. The school began as a set of eight demountable classrooms located on the Cannington Senior High School campus in 1974 then opened its doors to Year 8 and 9 students at the current location in 1975. The inaugural principal was Bill Goulding.
Throughout the 1970s the school colours were purple but was changed to blue and yellow in the 1980s. In 1981, the school's gymnasium was burnt down in an arson attack by a student causing $80,000 damage and making the gym unusable for 12 months. In 1986 the school produced its first Beazley medallist, Sherwant Singh Gill.
Throughout the 1980s, the school had a poor reputation due to widespread bullying, vandalism, truancy and low graduation rates. Much of the student population in the 1970s and 1980s came from low socio-economic backgrounds, including large numbers of new migrants from working class Britain. The school was considered amongst the worst in the state school system. This has now largely been rectified due to changing demographics of the surrounding areas.
$40,000 worth of damage occurred to the school in February 2011 when a fire broke out in a classroom. Leaves ignited in an air-conditioning unit but a fast response from 20 fire-fighters prevented any damage to adjoining classes.
The number of student enrolments has remained reasonably stable over the last five years. The school enrolled 1030 students in 2007, then 1032 in 2008, to 1029 in 2009, then fell to 911 in 2010 and to 900 in 2011. The fall in student numbers from 2010 is a result of the enrolment age changing for students entering high school in Western Australia.
The school offers a specialty soccer program as part of their soccer academy since 2004, which was endorsed through Gifted and Talented Education by the Department of Education. The Academy is designed to provide opportunities for talented football students so that they can excel in areas of playing at an elite level, and also promoting leadership and civic responsibilities. The school also offers an approved academic specialist program, called Environmental and Life Sciences (EaLS) focusing on sustainability which is an area that Lynwood is heavily identified for. This selective program is designed for students who are academically high achievers, hence selection in this program is quite competitive. Students selected into the program are being offered extension experiences and exciting opportunities across the four core learning ares of English, Maths, Science and Humanities and Social Sciences.
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