Type Public School Principal Nicki Polding Campus Katanning Phone +61 8 9821 9800 Number of students 373 (2012) | Established 1950 Enrolment 373 (2012) Colour(s) Red, Blue and White Motto We Strive to Excel Founded 1950 | |
Address Golf Links Rd, Katanning WA 6317, Australia Similar Braeside Primary School, Wagin District High Sch, Kobeelya Conferen Centre, Katanning | ||
Katanning senior high school 6137
Katanning Senior High School is a comprehensive public high school located in Katanning, a regional centre 300 kilometres (186 mi) south east of Perth, Western Australia.
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History
The school was established in 1961 and by 2012 had an enrolment of 373 students between Year 8 and Year 12, approximately 15% of whom were Aboriginal.
The school initially opened as a junior high school in 1950 and continued to operate as one until becoming a high school in 1961.
Beverley Stanes was the principal of the school from 2004 to 2010, before departing to take the principal position at Merredin College. Nicki Polding became principal in 2011.
Enrolments at the school have been reasonably steady with 355 students at the school in 2007, 400 in 2008, 440 in 2009, 377 in 2010, 367 in 2011 and 373 in 2012.
Hostel
Katanning Residential College was located adjacent to the school and offered boarding to many High School students from remote areas. The College was formerly known as St Andrew's Hostel. The Residential College closed in 2009.
The Hostel is best known for the sexual abuse of boys by Dennis John McKenna who was employed as a warden in the facility from 1975 to 1990. McKenna was found guilty of 63 offences on 28 victims and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Neil Vincent McKenna, the younger brother of Dennis McKenna, was found guilty of sexually abusing girls at the Hostel when he worked there as a senior supervisor from 1986 to 1991.
Wayne Leslie McKenna, another brother in the family, was found guilty of sexually abusing two girls while working as a supervisor at the Hostel in 1980. He received a 12-month suspended sentence for his crimes.