Shenton College

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|former_name = Hollywood Senior High School, Swanbourne Senior High School (amalgamated 2001)

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|location = Shenton Park, Perth, Western Australia

|country = Australia

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|type = Public co-educational partially selective high school

|educational_authority = WA Department of Education

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|district = North Metropolitan Education Region

|principal = Michael Morgan

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|University of Western Australia{{cite web |url=http://www.shenton.wa.edu.au/community/partnerships/local/uwa/ |title=UWA 'Learning Links' Partnership|website=Shenton College |access-date=17 November 2016}}

|Newman Senior High School

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Shenton College is a public co-educational senior high school, located in Shenton Park, an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Like many WA high schools, it is a partially selective school with out-of-area students accepted on a number of criteria. It is one of the largest schools in Western Australia,{{cite web|title=Alphabetical List of Western Australian Schools |url=https://apps.det.wa.edu.au/publicreports/SchoolsList0880.pdf |website=WA Department of Education |publisher=Government of Western Australia |access-date=24 February 2023 |location=Perth, WA |page=29 |date=2022}} with {{wikidata |property |current |P2196 }} enrolled students as of {{wikidata |property |qualifier |current |P2196 |P585 |format=%q}}.

History

Shenton College was established in January 2001 through the amalgamation of Swanbourne Senior High School and Hollywood Senior High School at a cost of $23.5 million. It was a project headed by the then Education Minister Colin Barnett as part of the Local Area Education Planning (LAEP) process.{{cite web|url=http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/ByPortfolio.aspx?ItemId=110038&search=&admin=&minister=&portfolio=Education®ion=&page=14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311100121/http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/ByPortfolio.aspx?ItemId=110038&search=&admin=&minister=&portfolio=Education®ion=&page=14|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 March 2012|title=Media Statement 2000|access-date=25 January 2011}}

The inaugural principal of the college was Pauline Coghlan, who was succeeded by Michael Morgan in September 2008. Assisting the Principal are six associate principals: Christopher Hill, Kristy Watson, Adam Pengelly, Jane Hamburg (Years 11 and 12), Gary Green (Years 9 and 10) and Chantal Simpson (Years 7 and 8).{{cite web |title=The Executive Team |url=https://www.shenton.wa.edu.au/information/leadership/the-executive-team/ |website=Shenton College |access-date=24 February 2023 |location=Shenton Park, WA}}

In February 2009, Shenton College and Newman Senior High School in the Pilbara announced an inter-school partnership.

During a freak storm on 22 March 2010, the school was extensively damaged by heavy hail and torrential rain. As a result, the school was temporarily closed. Students from years 8 to 10 were not allowed back for 8 days.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/25/2855571.htm?site=perth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111151423/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/25/2855571.htm?site=perth|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 November 2012|title=Weeks off school for storm students |work=ABC News |location=Australia |date=25 March 2010 |access-date=25 March 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/hundreds-of-students-without-a-classroom-for-weeks-after-freak-storm/story-e6frg12c-1225844978891|title=Hundreds of students off school for weeks after freak storm |work=Perth Now |date=25 March 2010 |access-date=26 March 2010}}

In 2015, Shenton College was expanded to include Year 7 students.{{cite web|last1=Collier|first1=Peter|title=Shenton College to welcome Year 7 students|url=http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/pages/StatementDetails.aspx?listName=MinisterialStatementsBarnett&StatId=467|website=Government of Western Australia|publisher=Minister's Office|access-date=2 June 2015}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Campus

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Shenton College was built in 2001 at a cost of $23.5 million{{cn|date=December 2022}} on a {{convert|33|acre|ha|0|adj=on|order=flip}} site bounded by Lemnos Street, Selby Street and Stubbs Terrace. The campus is adjacent to the Shenton Park railway station on the Fremantle railway line.

In 2019, stage 2 of the campus construction was completed at a cost of $46 million, providing facilities for an additional 1,000 Year 11 and 12 students{{snd}}taking the school's permanent capacity to 2,600 students. The expansion included new general classrooms; specialist classrooms for science, visual and performing arts, multimedia, IT and business studies; food and technology facilities; a new technology and enterprise centre; and a new cafeteria. The gymnasium was extended and new multi-purpose sports courts built.{{cite web |date=12 February 2018 |title=Major school building projects in Perth's inner suburbs |url=https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2018/02/Major-school-building-projects-in-Perths-inner-suburbs.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326031410/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2018/02/Major-school-building-projects-in-Perths-inner-suburbs.aspx |archive-date=26 March 2018 |access-date=1 June 2020 |website=Media Statements |publisher=Dept of the Premier and Cabinet, Government of Western Australia |location=Perth, WA}}

The modern college buildings are of a pale limestone with colourful interior walls. The school incorporates red-brick heritage buildings of the historical Lemnos Hospital (constructed 1926), including Crete, Borneo and Alamein houses, which have been internally renovated for use as classrooms and offices.{{cite web |date=13 April 2018 |title=Lemnos Hospital |url=http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Public/Inventory/PrintSingleRecord/3991941b-a8d3-4750-b316-8622d1ef423c |access-date=1 June 2020 |website=inHerit |publisher=Heritage Council of Western Australia |location=Perth, WA}}

As well as the main sports oval, the school has tennis, basketball, and netball courts; a gymnasium; and Lemnos Field, an artificial hockey turf near Gallipoli and Borneo houses.

Education

Shenton College draws students from a local intake area (catchment) that includes the suburbs of North Fremantle, Mosman Park, Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove, Swanbourne, Claremont, Mount Claremont, Dalkeith, Nedlands, Crawley, Shenton Park, Daglish, Jolimont, Floreat (south of Cambridge St and Oceanic Drive), Wembley (south of Cambridge Street), Subiaco (south of the Fremantle railway line and west of Station Street) and West Perth (south of Wellington Street).{{cite web|title=Shenton College Local-Intake Area Boundary |url=http://www.shenton.wa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Shenton-College-Catchment-Area-Map.pdf|website=Shenton College|publisher=Department of Education|access-date=23 November 2016|location=Perth, WA|date=October 2012}}

Shenton also takes a quota of additional students from across Western Australia in a Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program. Entry to the program is through the Academic Selective Entrance Test, an annual testing program administered by the Department of Education.{{cite web |url=http://det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/giftedandtalented/detcms/navigation/parents/selective-academic-programs/ |title=Selective Academic Programs |access-date=27 February 2012 |publisher=Department of Education, Western Australia}}

Entry to the Mathematics & Literacy focus High Performance Learning (HPL) program is managed at the school level. Shenton College has student representation in a number of international youth conferences, including TEE Exhibition winners, winning community based competitions such as the West Australian Debating League (State Championship Winners 2004–2007 and 2010), being represented in nationwide competitions and conferences (Evatt Trophy Competition, Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad, United Nations Youth Conference, National Youth Science Forum, Australian National Schools Debating Championships) or being represented in international youth conferences (Australian representatives to the Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN), the Global Young Leaders Conference, the Pacific Model United Nations (PacMUN), the Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition (BYSCC)).{{cite web|url=http://www.shenton.wa.edu.au/about/past/winners|title= State and National Winners|access-date=16 November 2010}}

According to Curriculum Council statistics, based on the number of students who scored 75% or more over four TEE subjects, Shenton College was the highest ranked public secondary school in 2009 and 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.curriculum.wa.edu.au/internet/Publications/Reports/Statistical_Reports/School_Comparison_Statistics|title=School Comparison statistics 2010|access-date=25 January 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110116061052/http://www.curriculum.wa.edu.au/internet/Publications/Reports/Statistical_Reports/School_Comparison_Statistics|archive-date=16 January 2011}} Based on Year 9 NAPLAN results, in 2012 Shenton College was the top ranked comprehensive public secondary school in Australia.{{cite web|url=http://resources.news.com.au/files/2013/05/31/1226654/685314-aus-your-school-top-schools-nationally.pdf|title=State and National Winners|access-date=16 October 2013}}

Learning Links program

The University of Western Australia and Shenton College continue a partnership known as the Learning Links program, which provides educational and development opportunities for Shenton staff and students. A Memorandum of Agreement for the Learning Links program was signed in November 1999 between the University of Western Australia and Hollywood Senior High School. In 2001, the terms were transferred from Hollywood Senior High School to Shenton College.

The program comprises four major areas for collaboration to create opportunities for learning experiences for students and staff:

Work UWA
School Management Professional Development
Educational Research Professional Development
Student Enrichment

In Year 10, Shenton College students are offered work experience at the university in order to enjoy intellectual, social and cultural experiences that UWA has to offer, early in their education. Through Learning Links, Shenton College students have special access to the University of Western Australia and its facilities. For example, the Academic Focus Group students, selected for their outstanding academic potential in Year 11 and 12, are inducted to the UWA Library and have borrowing rights.{{cite web|url=http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning_links|title=Learning Links|access-date=25 January 2011|archive-date=16 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216203525/http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning_links|url-status=dead}}

Statistics

Year 12 cohorts at Shenton College perform well in the WACE exams and the school ranks consistently in the top 20-schools in Western Australia.

Year !Rank !Median ATAR !Eligible students !Students with ATAR !% students with ATAR
class="wikitable sortable" \|+WA school ATAR ranking
2020{{cite web\|url=https://bettereducation.com.au/Results/WA/wace.aspx\|title=WA School Ranking - 2020\|year=2020\|access-date=1 February 2021\|publisher=Better Education}}	14	88.6	343	246	71.72
2019{{cite web\|url=https://bettereducation.com.au/Results/WA/wace.aspx\|title=WA School Ranking - 2019\|year=2019\|access-date=1 February 2021\|publisher=Better Education}}	10	88.55	308	225	73.05
2018{{cite web\|url=https://bettereducation.com.au/Results/WA/wace.aspx\|title=WA School Ranking - 2018\|year=2018\|access-date=14 January 2019\|publisher=Better Education}}	12	88.1	292	216	72.97
2017{{cite web\|url=https://bettereducation.com.au/Results/WA/wace.aspx\|title=WA School Ranking - 2017\|year=2017\|access-date=13 October 2018\|publisher=Better Education}}	16	88.8	287	211	73.92
2016{{cite web\|url=https://bettereducation.com.au/Results/WA/wace.aspx\|title=WA School Ranking - 2016\|year=2016\|access-date=13 October 2018\|publisher=Better Education}}	10	90	287	210	73.17

Year !Rank{{efn-lr\|Ranking of school compared to other schools in the state}} !% +75 in WACE{{efn-lr\|Based on the number of Stage 3 course enrolments in the school where a WACE course score of 75 or above was achieved}} !Rank !% +65 in WACE{{efn-lr\|Based on the number of Stage 3 course enrolments in the school where a WACE course score of 65 or above was achieved}} !% graduates{{efn-lr\|Percentage of Year 12 cohort that graduated with a WACE certificate}}
class="wikitable sortable" \|+Year 12 student achievement data
2015{{cite web\|url=https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/74888/Year-12-School-Performance-Data-2015-WITH-STATISTICAL-DATA.pdf\|title=Year 12 Student Achievement Data\|year=2015\|access-date=31 December 2017\|publisher=Government of Western Australia}}	22	18.35	22	44.54	100.00
2014{{cite web\|url=http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/YEAR%2012%20School%20Performance%20Data%202014_WITH%20STATISTICAL%20DATA.pdf\|title=Year 12 Student Achievement Data\|year=2014\|access-date=3 February 2015\|publisher=Government of Western Australia\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150309085033/http://scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/YEAR%2012%20School%20Performance%20Data%202014_WITH%20STATISTICAL%20DATA.pdf\|archive-date=9 March 2015}}	18	18.9	17	46.65	99.53
2013{{cite web\|url=http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/2013%20Year%2012%20School%20Performance%20Data%20-%20complete.pdf\|title=Year 12 Student Achievement Data\|year=2013\|access-date=4 April 2014\|publisher=Government of Western Australia\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150309085051/http://scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/2013%20Year%2012%20School%20Performance%20Data%20-%20complete.pdf\|archive-date=9 March 2015}}	10	19.41	12	46	100
2012{{cite web\|url=http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/Year%2012%20Student%20achievement%20data%20-%202012.pdf.pdf\|title=Year 12 Student Achievement Data\|year=2012\|access-date=24 July 2013\|publisher=Government of Western Australia\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826115635/http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/Year%2012%20Student%20achievement%20data%20-%202012.pdf.pdf\|archive-date=26 August 2014}}	16	18.93	23	45.51	99.61
2011{{cite web\|url=http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/Year%2012%20Student%20achievement%20data%202011_communications_web%20version%20RELATE%20TO%202012_900.pdf\|title=Year 12 Student Achievement Data\|year=2011\|access-date=24 July 2013\|publisher=Government of Western Australia\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826161651/http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/Year%2012%20Student%20achievement%20data%202011_communications_web%20version%20RELATE%20TO%202012_900.pdf\|archive-date=26 August 2014}}	15	21.98	15	56.49	99.59
2010{{cite web\|url=http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/Year%2012%20student%20achievement%20data%20and%20State%20statistics%20-%202010.pdf\|title=Year 12 Student Achievement Data\|year=2010\|access-date=24 July 2013\|publisher=Government of Western Australia\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826161245/http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/Year%2012%20student%20achievement%20data%20and%20State%20statistics%20-%202010.pdf\|archive-date=26 August 2014}}	13	22.94	15	59.63	100
2009{{cite web\|url=http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/Year%2012%20Student%20achievement%20data%20-%202009_web.pdf\|title=Year 12 Student Achievement Data\|year=2009\|access-date=24 July 2013\|publisher=Government of Western Australia\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150309085152/http://scsa.wa.edu.au/internet/_Documents/Statistics/Year%2012%20Student%20achievement%20data%20-%202009_web.pdf\|archive-date=9 March 2015}}	9	51.55 (>75% minimum of one subject)	11	56.52 (64.6% or more)	98.29

Notable alumni

Shenton College alumni include students who attended Hollywood Senior High School and Swanbourne Senior High School.

Adam Bandt – Leader of the Australian Greens and Federal MP for Melbourne Hollywood SHS
Colin Barnett – Premier of Western Australia Hollywood SHS
Kim Beazley – Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Ambassador to USA, Governor of Western Australia{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/17/2688593.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922172038/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/17/2688593.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 September 2009|title= Beazley goes to Washington|website= Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=18 November 2010}} & Rhodes Scholar 1973{{cite web |url=http://www.scholarships.uwa.edu.au/community/western-australian-rhodes-scholars |title=Western Australian Rhodes Scholars |date=1 December 2015 |access-date=23 November 2016 |publisher=University of Western Australia}} Hollywood SHS
Ian Cairns – champion international professional surfer{{cite web |url=http://www.surfingmagazine.com/more/surfing-walk-of-fame-induction-2010/ |title=Surfing Walk of Fame Induction 2010 |access-date=6 January 2011 |date=3 August 2010|work=Surfing Magazine}} Swanbourne SHS
Chris Evans – Federal cabinet minister & senator for Western Australia Hollywood SHS
Ryan Gregson – middle-distance runner, competed at 2012 Summer Olympics in London{{cite web |url=http://london2012.olympics.com.au/athlete/ryan-gregson |title=London 2012 – Ryan Gregson Athlete Profile |access-date=4 August 2012 |archive-date=3 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803190506/http://london2012.olympics.com.au/athlete/ryan-gregson |url-status=dead }}
Rechelle Hawkes – captain, Australia women's national field hockey team, three Olympic Games gold medals Hollywood SHS{{cite web|url=https://www.shenton.wa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Hollywood-History.pdf|title=Hollywood Senior High School – A history|accessdate=23 December 2022|publisher=Shenton College}}
Simon Leach – musician, Little Birdy Hollywood SHS{{cn|date=December 2022}}
Steve Malaxos – Australian rules footballer, West Coast Eagles Hollywood SHS
Graham Moss – Australian rules footballer, captain of Essendon Football Club, Brownlow Medalist Hollywood SHS
Joel Quartermain – musician, Eskimo Joe Hollywood SHS
Louise Sauvage – eleven time Paralympic Games gold medallist Hollywood SHS
Greta Scacchi – actress, Golden Globe nominee & Emmy Award winner{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000627/|title= Greta Scacchi|website= IMDb|access-date=22 November 2010}} Hollywood SHS
Gemma Ward – international model and actress{{cite web|url=http://supermodels.nl/gemmaward|title=About Gemma Ward|access-date=18 December 2007|work=Gemma Ward jhomepage|publisher=Supermodels.nl|archive-date=20 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320063335/http://supermodels.nl/gemmaward|url-status=dead}}

References

External links

{{Official website}}

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