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Kent Street Senior High School
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Established	1949
School type	Public, Co-educational
Principal	Rod Beresford
Location	Kensington, W.A, Australia  Australia
Campus	Suburban
Enrolment	768
School colours	Red, blue & white
Homepage	www.kentst.wa.edu.au
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Kent Street Senior High School originated as the first high school on the southern side of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia and is well known for its specialist courses and academic programs.

Kent Street is located 4 kilometres (2 mi) southeast of Perth's central business district within the suburb of Kensington. Over 50 percent of students attending Kent Street live in neighbouring or other school districts. This is largely due to Kent Street's specialist programs (Aeronautics, Cricket, Tennis, Fashion & Design).

[edit] History

The Admin Block of Kent Street Senior High School

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[edit] Kentian Society

The Kentian Society was the first government school ex-students association to be established in Western Australia.^{[citation needed]}

The Kentian Society Logo

[edit] Rotary Residential College

The Rotary Residential College is on land leased from Kent Street Senior High School. The idea of the college was generated by the constant requests to metropolitan Rotary clubs for accommodation for high school students wanting to study special courses only provided at city based high schools. With the help of Federal, State and Local Governments, the corporate sector and guided by some Individual Rotary Clubs, this project is now a reality and has been operating successfully since 1991.

Over the past twelve years some 450 boarders have availed themselves of the accommodation and they have come from nearly 100 country towns.

[edit] Campus

The School is based primarily on its 10-acre (4.0 ha) campus on Kent Street in East Victoria Park. The campus of the school is divided into three levels, because of its sloping hill it was positioned on. The school has no breaking in age groups except for a Canteen Quad for lower school children and a UpperSchool Quad of upperschool children.

[edit] Aviation Course

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[edit] Notable alumni

• Rod Marsh, Cricket, Australian Cricket Team, Western Warriors;
• Michael Dighton, Cricket, Western Warriors, Tasmanian Devils Football Club;
• His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC (Retd), former Governor General of Australia, and former Governor of Western Australia.
• Phillip O'Hara, Professor of Political Economy Curtin University;
• David Taylor, Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire County Cricket Club;
• Marcus North, Cricket, Western Warriors;
• Mitchell Patterson, Fashion, Melbourne, Victoria;
• Luke Pomersbach, Cricket, Western Warriors;
• Luke Ronchi, Cricket, Western Warriors;
• Ashley Thorpe, Cricket, Durham County Cricket Club;
• Duncan Spencer, Cricket, Kent County Cricket Club, Western Warriors;
• Shane Woewodin, AFL, Melbourne Football Club, Brownlow Medalist 2000, Collingwood Football Club;
• Chris Mayne, AFL, Fremantle Football Club;
• Andrew Vlahov, NBL, Perth Wildcats, Australian Boomers, 4-time Olympian (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000)
• Bradd Dalziell, AFL, Brisbane Lions 2008-2009, West Coast Eagles 2009 - Present.

[edit] See also

• List of schools in Perth, Western Australia
• List of boarding schools

[edit] References

• History of Kent Street Senior High School, written by past staff in 1985.
• Student Records located in the School Science Block.
• Ex-Principal, Mr. Peter Klifunis.
• School Website

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[edit] External links

• Official Website