Shenton College
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Shenton Park, WA, 6008 Australia |
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| Coordinates | 31°57′31″S 115°48′13″E / 31.95861°S 115.80361°ECoordinates: 31°57′31″S 115°48′13″E / 31.95861°S 115.80361°E |
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| Type | State, Partially selective, Co-educational, Secondary, Day school |
| Motto | Excellence, Community & Self |
| Opened | 1 February 2001 |
| School district | North Metropolitan Education Region |
| Principal | Susan Gilchrist |
| Staff | 64 (Administration & Support) |
| Faculty | 124 |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Enrolment | 1,940 (55% Male, 45% Female) (Semester 2, 2016) |
| Medium of language | English, Auslan |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue, Bottle Green, White |
| Affiliations | University of Western Australia |
| Website | shenton |
Shenton College is a co-educational public secondary school located in Shenton Park, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Shenton College was established in January 2001 through the amalgamation of Swanbourne and Hollywood Senior High Schools at a cost of $23.5 million. It was a project headed by the then Education Minister Colin Barnett as part of the Local Area Education Planning (LAEP) process.
The inaugural Principal of the College was Pauline Coghlan who was succeeded by Michael Morgan in September 2008.
In February 2009, Shenton College and Newman Senior High School in the Pilbara announced a sister schooling partnership.
During a freak storm on 22 March 2010, the school was extensively damaged by hail and torrential rain. As a result, the school was temporarily closed to all students. Students from years 8 to 10 were not allowed back for 8 days. Repairs were undertaken, new carpet was laid throughout, and in April 2010 several buildings were upgraded.
In 2015 Shenton College welcomed year 7 students for the first time.
Shenton College draws students from a local intake area (catchment) that includes the suburbs of North Fremantle, Mosman Park, Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove, Swanbourne, Claremont, Mount Claremont, Dalkeith, Nedlands, Crawley, Shenton Park, Daglish, Jolimont, Floreat (south of Cambridge St and Oceanic Drive), Wembley (south of Cambridge Street), Subiaco (south of the Fremantle railway line and west of Station Street) and West Perth (south of Wellington Street).
Shenton also takes a quota of additional students from across Western Australia in a Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program. Entry to the program is through the Academic Selective Entrance Test, an annual testing program administered by the Department of Education.
Entry to the Mathematics & Literacy focus High Performance Learning (HPL) program is managed at the school level. Shenton College has a history of winning national and state academic awards and competitions, as well as having student representation in a number of international youth conferences, including TEE Exhibition winners, winning community based competitions such as the West Australian Debating League (State Championship Winners 2004-2007 and 2010), being represented in nationwide competitions and conferences (Evatt Trophy Competition, Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad, United Nations Youth Conference, National Youth Science Forum, Australian National Schools Debating Championships) or being represented in international youth conferences (Australian representatives to the Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN), the Global Young Leaders Conference, the Pacific Model United Nations (PacMUN), the Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition (BYSCC)).
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