Eaton Community College to open senior school in 2009

14/9/07
Eaton Community College will open its doors to Year 11 students in 2009, Education and Training Minister Mark McGowan announced today.
Mr McGowan said Year 12 students would follow in 2010.
"The community made strong representations calling for students to have a seamless secondary education and that is what Eaton Community College will provide," he said.
"Collie-Wellington MLA Mick Murray also took up the issue and arranged for me to meet with school representatives last month. He fought tirelessly for this change."
The college originally opened in 2003 as a middle school and now has almost 300 students from Year Seven to Year 10.
The Minister said the college boasted outstanding facilities and grounds which included a performing arts studio, music practise rooms, design and technology studio, food technology centre, digital media and graphics laboratories and many other amenities.
"The facilities are excellent and capacity at the school will be monitored into the future as the student population expands," he said.
Mr Murray said a local intake boundary for enrolments at Eaton Community College would be implemented from 2009.
"From then on, the intake area for Eaton Community College will be bounded by the Collie River, the Australind Bypass Road and the railway line to the coast," Mr Murray said.
"This area currently falls within the intake area for Australind Senior High School, but from 2009, students living in this area will enrol at Eaton Community College."
Eaton and Glen Huon Primary Schools will also become part of the local intake area for Eaton Community College from 2009.
Mr McGowan said Eaton and Glen Huon Primary School students with siblings already attending Australind Senior High School would be entitled to enrol at Australind Senior High School until 2013.
"I will be writing to parents to explain the changes to intake areas for the two secondary schools," he said.
The Minister said the Carpenter Government was using the State's strong economy to provide better education facilities in the South-West.
"As the local population grows, the State Government continues to deliver outstanding education facilities in the greater Bunbury area," he said.
"With the new developments at Eaton Community College, it is a great opportunity for staff from the two schools to share their expertise and offer complementary upper school education programs across the schools."
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