Denmark High School (Denmark, Australia)

Denmark High School
Location
Denmark, Western Australia
Australia
Coordinates 34°57′27″S 117°21′55″E / 34.957408°S 117.36536°E / -34.957408; 117.36536Coordinates: 34°57′27″S 117°21′55″E / 34.957408°S 117.36536°E / -34.957408; 117.36536
Information
Type Public School
Motto Strive to Achieve
Established 2000
Principal Diane Cole
Enrolment 280 (2012)
Campus Denmark

Denmark High School is a comprehensive public high school located in the Denmark, a regional centre 400 kilometres (249 mi) south-southeast of Perth, Western Australia.

The school was established in 2000 and caters for students from Year 8 to Year 12.[1] It occupies an area of 19 hectares (47 acres) and is bordered to the west by the Denmark River and to the south by the South Coast Highway.

The school offers a specialist basketball program for students in Year 8 to 10 and the school won A-division in basketball for both the boys and girls team in 2011 countryweek tournament.[2]

Enrolments have been trending upward with the school having 229 students in 2007, 247 in 2008, 284 in 2009, 255 in 2010, 266 in 2011 and 280 in 2012.

In 2013 the school appeared in the top 50 schools for WACE results at position 25 making it the top school in the Great Southern region.[3]

See also

List of schools in rural Western Australia

References

  1. ↑ "Department of Education Schools online". 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. ↑ "School Sport WA - Country Senior High Schools Carnival". 2010. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Shannon Hampton (20 January 2014). "Proud principal jumps for joy". Albany Advertiser. Yahoo7. Retrieved 20 January 2014.


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