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Secondary school is the institution in which the last segment of compulsory education takes place in many countries. In some countries, especially in North America, secondary schools are known as high schools. Secondary schools provide a secondary education, a period of education which, in most contemporary educational systems of the world, follows directly after primary education, and which may be followed by tertiary, "post-secondary," or "higher" education such as a college or university.

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Scotch College is an independent school for boys, situated in Swanbourne, Western Australia, Australia. The school is a member of the Public Schools Association (PSA) and is now a Uniting Church school, although it was founded in 1897 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia. The school in recent years has undertaken the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years and Middle Years programmes.

Scotch has a large campus in Swanbourne and an outdoor education centre in Dwellingup. The campus in Swanbourne consists of a high school for years 8-12, a junior school for years Pre-Primary to Grade 7, a boarding house and sports grounds. The school has over 120 boarding students.

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Collegians House, the main administration building at Scotch College, in Perth, Western Australia. Previously featured: Plano Senior High School - Plano High School American Football team of 1900, Hopkins School - Gordonstoun - Harrow School chapel

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City of London School – Eton College – Harrow School – Westminster School – Winchester College

Carey Baptist Grammar School – Caulfield Grammar School – Melbourne High School – Scotch College, Perth – St Michael's Grammar School – Sydney Grammar School – Wesley College, Perth N.B. Italicised articles are Featured articles.

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Did you know

...that The King's School in Canterbury, England, was founded in 597 AD by St. Augustine, making it now the world's oldest surviving school?

...that The Doon School used the song Jana Gana Mana as its school song 12 years before it became the Indian national anthem?

...that the Bronx High School of Science counts seven Nobel Prize winners among its graduates, more than any other secondary school in the world?

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