Bunbury Senior High School is a comprehensive public high school located in Bunbury

Bunbury, Western Australia

The port city of Bunbury is the third largest city in Western Australia after the State Capital Perth and Mandurah. It is situated south of Perth's central business district...

, a regional centre 175 kilometres (109 mi) south of Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

, Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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The school was established in 1923 and by 2009 had an enrolment of 917 students between Year 8 and Year 12, 28 (3%) of whom were Aboriginal

Indigenous Australians

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The school is the fourth oldest in the state and many of the buildings are heritage

Cultural heritage

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 listed.
The style of the buildings is Georgian Revival and the school is situated on Boulters Heights, one of the highest points of the city between the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

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 and the CBD.

The school won the champion school award in the Country Week

Country Senior High Schools Carnival (Western Australia)

Country Week or Country Senior High Schools Carnival is an annual multi-sport event carnival held in Perth, Western Australia between rural high schools from Western Australia...

 carnival in 2009 for the first time since the school started competing in 1928. The school team was composed of 135 students in twelve teams competing in most sports.

The school won the Kim Hughes

Kim Hughes

Kimberley John Hughes is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia. He captained Australia in 28 Tests between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a "rebel" Australian team in a tour of South Africa, who at the time were subject to a sporting boycott.A right-handed...

 shield for the secondary school champion cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

team in Western Australia in 2009.