Tom Price Senior High School is a
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...
comprehensive secondary school located in
Tom Price, a regional centre north east of
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...
.
The school is operated by the
WA Department of Education. The school
principal is Trevor Henderson.
Established as a district high school in 1971 it enrolled students from
Year 1 to
Year 10
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. With an enrolment of 700 students, the school became a senior high school in 1995, switching to enrolling students from
Year 8
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to
Year 12. Enrolments at the school have been reasonably steady over the past few years with 242 students enrolled in 2007, 254 in 2008, 250 in 2009, 238 in 2010, 245 in 2011, 246 in 2012 and 312 in 2018. In 2018, 25 percent of enrolled students identified as
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
and 15 percent as being from a
language background other than English.
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See also
*List of schools in rural Western Australia
This is a list of schools in the state of Western Australia, located outside the Perth metropolitan area. The Western Australian education system traditionally consists of primary schools, which accommodate students from kindergarten to Year 6, ...
*Education in Western Australia
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Public high schools in Western Australia
1971 establishments in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1971
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