Warwick Senior High School is a co-educational government school in the northern suburb

Suburb

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s of Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, Western Australia

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. It teaches years 8 to 12 in the Australian education system, and has around 900 students. It was founded in 1981.

The school offers many specialist programs for its students, including drama

Drama

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, netball

Netball

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, dance

Dance

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, football

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, and music

Music

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 .

Until 2000, the school operated on a four classes per day timetable, with each class being 80 minutes long. In 2000 this was changed to between five and six classes a day varying by the day of the week.

Warwick commences classes at 8:30am, and finishes its day at the unusually early hour of 2:45pm.

Notable alumni

Notable past students include participant for the Embarrassing Bodies TV show, Blake Ryan who came on the show with his one testicle, actress Melissa George

Melissa George

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, former Perth Orioles netballer Tracey Pemberton

Tracey Pemberton

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, former actor Michu Meszaros

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 and actor Natalie Saleeba

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 who has starred in All Saints

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and Neighbours

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