Pinjarra Senior High School
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Pinjarra, Western Australia Australia |
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| Coordinates | 32°37′59″S 115°52′20″E / 32.6330°S 115.8723°ECoordinates: 32°37′59″S 115°52′20″E / 32.6330°S 115.8723°E |
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| Type | Independent Public School |
| Motto | Be True |
| Established | 1921 |
| Principal | Rob Lawson |
| Enrolment | 789 (2017) |
| Campus | Pinjarra |
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| Website | www.pinjarrashs.wa.edu.au |
Pinjarra Senior High School is an independent public high school located in Pinjarra, a regional centre 86 kilometres (53 mi) south of Perth, Western Australia.
Students studying at the school come both from Pinjarra and surrounding areas such as Serpentine, Dwellingup, Warrona, North Yunderup and South Yunderup.
As of 2017, Pinjarra Senior High School has 789 enrolled students in Years 7 through 12.
John Fairbairn opened the first school in Pinjarra in 1848. The school site was occupied in 1921 when a three-room school building and manual training centre was completed.
The school operated as a primary school until 1951, then as a junior high school until 1960, a high school until 1965 and as a senior high school since 1965.
Elizabeth Aitken served as school principal until 2011, then left and was replaced with Alan Hunt who held the role between 2011 and 2015. The current principal of the school is Rob Lawson.
The school has made a couple of notable additions to the campus within the past decade. In 2011, the school opened a $1.9 million Science Laboratory area that was built as part of the Building Education Revolution scheme. Western Australia's Chief scientist Lyn Beazley visited the facility during its construction phase in June 2009.
In 2013, a Technology and Enterprise building and Trade Training Centre was completed, at a cost of around $7m. The building caters to the development of skills and experience in Foods, Textiles, Woodwork, Metalwork and Automotive.
Pinjarra Senior High School has three specialist programs which students can opt to undertake. These include;
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