St. Louis School, Claremont, Western Australia

St. Louis School /ˈluːɪs/ was a Catholic boys’ school in Claremont, Western Australia, between 1938 and 1976.

St. Louis School was a Catholic boys’ school founded by the Jesuits – their only school in Western Australia. It opened on 23 May 1938 in Claremont in the western suburbs of Perth, on the site of the former Hinemoa Homestead which had been sold to the Catholic Church in 1932. The homestead building was used for the Junior School, while new buildings were erected to house the Senior School, the Jesuit community, and the boarders.

The School was named after Aloysius Gonzaga, an early Jesuit saint, also known as Luís de Gonzaga. Its motto was “Altiora Peto” (“I seek higher things”).

The Jesuits ran the School until 1971, when it was handed over to the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. Archbishop Lancelot Goody appointed a School Council chaired by Judge John Lavan to manage the School.

St. Louis School amalgamated with the Loreto Convent girls’ school to form John XXIII College, which opened in 1977.

The site of St. Louis School is now occupied by the St. Louis Retirement Estate, which has preserved the old homestead building.

St. Louis School enrolled boys from ages seven to seventeen, both day pupils and boarders.

Until the mid-1960s, the year grades were named after levels in the traditional Jesuit curriculum: Elements, Rudiments, Grammar (I and II)3rd reverse this order, Syntax (I and II)reverse this order, Poetry and Rhetoric.

Inititally there were three houses named after the Jesuit saints: Gonzaga (blue), Kostka (green) and Xavier (red). A fourth house Loyola (white) was introduced in 1976 to ease the almalgamation with Loreto Convent which already had a fourth house.

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