Carmel School, Perth

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Carmel School
faith & knowledge
Established	1959
School Type	Private
Denomination	Jewish
Location	Dianella & Yokine, W.A, Australia
Enrolment	~750
Colours
Homepage	www.carmel.wa.edu.au

Carmel School is a private modern orthodox Jewish school in Perth, Western Australia which was founded in 1959.

Carmel lies at the heart of Perth's small Jewish community. Although this is the third largest Jewish community in Australia, numbers have never reached more than 6000 members (the most recent Australian census put Western Australia's entire Jewish community at 5,300 members). Despite a small but steady stream of Jewish immigration from South Africa, the Jewish community in Perth is shrinking as many young people leave the city, mainly heading to the larger Australian Jewish communities in Melbourne and Sydney.

Carmel's motto is "Faith & Knowledge" and it takes pride in offering an excellent Jewish education as well as a high quality secular education for students from Kindergarten to Year 12. In November 2006 it opened a state-of-the-art Early Learning Centre which houses students from Kindergarten to Year 1.