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Girdlestone High School: Perth: Perth: 1847: 1960: Formerly Perth Girls'; central school from 1909 (co-located with Perth Boys'); split 1936 to form Perth Central Girls' and Perth Girls' (East Perth); became HS and renamed Girdlestone in July 1946 Hamilton Senior High School: Hamilton Hill: Cockburn: 1962: 2017: HS until 1968; merged into ...
Perth metropolitan region. Coordinates: 31.95°S 115.86°E. Satellite image of the Perth metropolitan region at night. The Perth metropolitan region or the Perth metropolitan area is the administrative area and geographical extent of the Western Australian capital city of Perth and its conurbation. It generally includes the coastal strip from ...
Western suburbs (Perth) The western suburbs (also known as the golden triangle) [1] are an informally defined group of suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, located west of the city's central business district and north of the Swan River. The western suburbs are well known for high incomes, high house prices, riverfront mansions, private schools ...
Perth Modern School (colloquially known as Perth Mod) is a public co-educational academically selective high school, located in Subiaco, an inner city suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Perth Modern is Western Australia's only fully academically selective public school. Established in 1911, the school is both the oldest public high school and ...
Curtin University was founded in 1966 as the Western Australian Institute of Technology. [24] The four people who drove its establishment were Lesley Phillips, who was Superintendent of Technical Education from 1943 to 1948; George Hayman, [a] who held the same position from 1948 [25] to 1962; [26] T. L. Robertson, Director of Education; and Haydn Williams, Director of Technical Education.
The first schools started to appear during the 1830s throughout the state, in the form of one-teacher schools. The oldest government-sponsored education institution in Western Australia, Guildford Colonial School (now Guildford Primary School), was founded at the Swan River Colony in 1833, and consisted of several premises in the townsite before a purpose built school was constructed in 1870. [4]
The Old Academy building, situated just over two miles to the northeast of today's structure. While able to claim a strong connection to the Perth Grammar School, founded in the 12th century, [citation needed] the name Perth Academy first appears in 1542 when it was founded by the town council, making Perth Academy one of the oldest schools in Scotland. [3]
The metropolitan region is defined by the Planning and Development Act 2005 to include 30 local government areas, with the outer extent being the City of Wanneroo and the City of Swan to the north, the Shire of Mundaring, City of Kalamunda and the City of Armadale to the east, the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale to the southeast and the City of ...