Willetton Senior High School


Willetton Senior High School is a public co-educational secondary day school, located in Willetton, south of the Perth central business district and east of the port of Fremantle, in Western Australia. The school opened in February 1977 with 77 students. it had an enrolment of 2,410 students, and employed 281 staff.
The student catchment area for WSHS encompasses the suburb of Willetton and part of the suburb of Bull Creek, which is shared with Leeming Senior High School and Rossmoyne Senior High School.

Campus

WSHS covers an area of approximately, located adjacent to Burrendah Primary School. There are seven main buildings, along with numerous transportable buildings, some many years old. A $5 million upgrade was completed in 2008 that resulted in the construction of a new gymnasium and several new facilities.
WSHS underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation that commenced in 2014. In the second semester of 2014, asbestos contamination was detected after construction workers found pieces of asbestos had fallen off the roof of a school building slated for demolition. The school was closed for a week so the site could be inspected. Teachers were sent to work from North Lake Senior High School where they connected with students via the internet so that classes could continue.

Academic rankings

The Year 12 cohorts at Willetton perform consistently well in the WACE school rankings, and the school ranks well when compared to other schools in Western Australia.
YearRankMedian ATARE ligible studentsStudents with ATAR% students with ATARNotes
20181587.536729479.84
20171389.1539527268.86
20161488.0538928974.29

YearRank% +75 in WACERank% +65 in WACE% graduatesNotes
20151720.052145.1696.37
20141520.421646.9497.25
20131715.952040.3996.70
20121717.212146.0397.22
20111024.021259.1199.13
20102016.933351.0797.60
20092240.29
1948.55
98.42

In 2017, Andreea Ioan won the Beazley Medal for the top ranked Vocational Education and Training student.

Special programs

WSHS is one of 20 schools offering the Gifted and Talented Education with entry through a centrally organised testing program. Entry to the science-focused Talented And Gifted program is managed at the school level. The school offers a specialist fine arts course for Years 8 to 10 and a successful senior school art program. A specialist course in computing was the first of its kind in WA and has recently been expanded to include a multimedia stream. A specialist basketball course runs from Years 8 to 11 and offers students a TAFE Certificate II in Sport Coaching and Sport and Recreation. Both male and female teams have won multiple national championships. As of June 2019, WSHS introduced a program called the eSports Club where all students can prepare for a sports competition and practise against other local schools. Some of the team-names include, WSHS eSports and DLGC.

International relations

WSHS has a sister school relationship with the High School and Junior High School of University of Hyogo located in Kamigōri, Ako District, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Cultural exchanges between the two schools commenced in 1995 and a collaborative international partnership was established in 2005. WSHS maintains relationships that provide opportunities for French and Italian language students to study overseas.

Notable alumni