Mount Lawley Senior High School

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Mount Lawley Senior High School
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Established	1955
School type	Public, Secondary, Co-educational
Principal/ Headmaster	Mr Butcher
Location	Mount Lawley, WA, Australia
Campus	Suburban
Enrolment	1294
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Homepage	www.lawleywa.edu.au

Mount Lawley Senior High School is one of the premier government schools in Western Australia. Founded in 1955, the school has a rich history of student success and achievement.

The school has a focus in Languages other than English and is a Special Language School for students from across the Perth metropolitan area. Students are able to undertake studies in Italian, Indonesian, Spanish, French, German and Chinese. The school offers more languages than any other school in Western Australia.

The Arts are also a special focus of the school with Music, Visual Arts, Drama and Media Studies programs on offer. The school offers a Special Visual and Performing Arts Program to students in the school boundary and neighbouring regions.

The school has recently undergone an extensive re-building and re-development program that has seen most of the original buildings redevoloped into a modern state of the art institution.

The school has established a Memorandum of Understanding with neighbouring Edith Cowan University that has resulted in links for students to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts(WAPPA) in Jazz & Contemporary Music and Classical Music, School of Education (biotechnology and ICT) and the School of Contemporary Arts (Theatre). The school and University also share the Sport & Fitness Centre and car park. Both institutions are working to create an educational precinct for the broader Mount Lawley community.

New and innovative programs have also been established that enable students to link to TAFE studies and workplace learning.