Merredin College

Merredin College
Location
Merredin, Western Australia
Australia
Coordinates 31°29′19″S 118°16′58″E / 31.4885°S 118.2829°E / -31.4885; 118.2829Coordinates: 31°29′19″S 118°16′58″E / 31.4885°S 118.2829°E / -31.4885; 118.2829
Information
Type Public School
Motto Advance Together
Established 1957
Principal Beverley Stanes[1]
Enrolment 604 (2012)
Campus Merredin
Colour(s) 1957-2011 Blue and White 2011-present Blue and Gold
Website http://www.merredincollege.wa.edu.au/

Merredin College is a comprehensive public high school located in Merredin, a regional centre 260 kilometres (162 mi) east of Perth, Western Australia. It was known as Merredin Senior High School until 2011.

The school was established in 1957 and by 2012 had an enrolment of 604 students between Kindergarten and Year 12.

In 2004 the school was selected to receive funding for the second stage of the federal government's Boys education initiative.[2]

Katherine Ward was the principal of the school in 2009.

In 2011 construction commenced at the high school site of new classrooms to expand the campus to become a K-12 school. Both the existing Primary schools, North Merredin and South Merredin, have been amalgamated into the one college site. Besides new classrooms the school will also have new undercover areas, canteen, music rooms, medical clinic and a new staff room. Additionally the library is to be extended and the existing high school rooms are to be refurbished.[3]

The principal of the college is Beverley Stanes, who was appointed in 2011 and was previously the principal of Katanning Senior High School and Kulin District High School.

In 2009 the school had an enrollment of 302 students between Year 8 and Year 12, then 298 in 2010 and 288 in 2010. Once the school catered for students from K-12 the enrolments jumped and were 604 (with 287 between 8 and 12) in 2012.

See also

List of schools in rural Western Australia

References

  1. ↑ "Education Department of WA – Schools online". 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  2. ↑ "Wheatbelt to join boys education project". 2004. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  3. ↑ "Merredin College progresses". Merredin-Wheatbelt Mercury (Merredin, Western Australia: Farfax Media). 24 Aug 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
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