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Penrhos College is an
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single-sex
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and secondary
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school for girls, located in
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, a southern suburb of
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, Western Australia. Founded in 1952 as the Methodist Ladies' College, South Perth, Penrhos has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,400 students from
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to
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, including 105 boarders in Years 7 to 12. The
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is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the
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(JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), the
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(AGSA), and is a member of the Independent Girls Schools Sports Association (IGSSA). The school takes pride in its 17 consecutive wins in the IGSSA athletics, and almost as many in the cross country and swimming events.


History

Penrhos College was established in 1952 as the Methodist Ladies' College, South Perth and was originally located on Angelo Street, South Perth across from the Perth Zoo. The school moved to its present site in Como, south of Perth, in 1971. The school was originally a subdivision of the Methodist Ladies' College, Claremont (1907), but both now operate independently. It educates from pre-kindergarten to year 12. In 1977, the Methodist Ladies' College, South Perth was awarded to the Uniting Church in Australia following Church Union, and became known as Penrhos College. The school's new name was drawn from Penrhos College, in
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, which was established in 1880 by the
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, for the special education of girls. Penrhos is a
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word meaning "Peak of the Moor".


Campus

Penrhos College is situated on a single suburban
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in an elevated position, on a former pine
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. The school is in size, featuring a parkland setting and modern cream brick and
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-tiled buildings.


Academics

The school has had consistently good
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results and appears regularly in the top 30 schools for the WACE.


Alumni

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of Penrhos College are known as Old Girls and may elect to join the school's
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, The Penrhos College Alumni Inc. Some notable Penrhos Old Girls include: * Kate Atkinson – actress *
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See also

*
List of schools in the Perth metropolitan area This is a list of schools in the city of Perth, Western Australia. The Western Australian education system traditionally consists of primary schools, which accommodate students from Kindergarten to Year 6, and high schools, which accommodate st ...
*
List of boarding schools in Australia The following are notable boarding schools in Australia. There are 189 boarding schools in Australia. Australian Capital Territory * Canberra Girls Grammar School, Deakin *Canberra Grammar School, Red Hill New South Wales Former boarding sc ...
*
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* {{Authority control Girls' schools in Western Australia Educational institutions established in 1952 Former Methodist schools in Australia Uniting Church schools in Australia Boarding schools in Western Australia Private primary schools in Perth, Western Australia Junior School Heads Association of Australia Member Schools in Western Australia Private secondary schools in Perth, Western Australia 1952 establishments in Australia Como, Western Australia Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia