Beverley District High School

Beverley District High School is located in a rural community about 130km from Perth in the wheatbelt region of WA. The school site is adjacent to the Avon River and close to the town's sporting facilities of oval, tennis, bowling, basketball courts and swimming pool. Beverley has a strong history of aviation and the town boasts a gliding club and flying school. Since WW2 it has been a major training airstrip for the Armed Forces Caribou aircraft. The District High School in Beverley represents a long tradition of education in the town and its surrounding localities. We celebrate 137 years of schooling in Beverley in 2010. The present buildings were constructed in 1950, with extensions completed in 1962. More recently, Beverley District High School has built a state of the art D&T room and obtained a MOASH (community access building). In 2010, the school had a new library and a combined Art/Craft and Music room built under the Federal Government's Building the Education Revolution program. There are two networked computer labs in the school. The school has extensive grounds with one large oval, cricket net and tennis, basketball and netball courts. At Beverley District High School, our purpose is to provide the best opportunities for our students to develop their full academic, aesthetic and physical potential and to encourage independent learning and social responsibility. The staff and parents at the school are committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for all its students. The school currently caters for around 195 students from years K to 10. About 30% of the students are members of farming families. 26% of families have been resident in Beverley for less than 5 years. There are 19 teaching and 14 support staff. There is a mixture of teaching experience with long serving staff and graduates working together to provide an appropriate, challenging and relevant curriculum to students. The school is very community orientated and enjoys excellent parent-teacher support. The school has an active and supportive Parents & Citizens Association and a hard working and effective School Council. There are many community links and the school is solidly supported by the many active environmental, sporting and service groups in the community. Parents are encouraged to take an active role in their children's education and are an integral and much appreciated component of many of the school's programs.