Esperance Senior High School was opened in 1966 and has a population of around 870 students, including 70 Aboriginal students. It offers a comprehensive secondary education from years 8 to 12 and provides a range of curriculum subject choices and exciting extra curricular activities. Esperance lies in the south-east of Western Australia, some 720kms from Perth. The town has won awards for its stunning natural environment and is one of Western Australia's best kept tourist secrets! School website link. The school has a reputation for providing a strong academic program and for offering a wide choice of programs and courses to meet a variety of student learning needs. Some of the outstanding programs on offer include: * A wide choice of university bound subjects * Vocational education and training courses in the areas of business, hospitality, childcare, building and construction, automotives, metals engineering, agriculture, hairdressing and community recreation. * A strong performing arts program, including music, drama, visual arts and drawing. * Gifted and Talented programs like the Tournament of Minds, an Australasian Pacific critical and creative thinking skills competition which the school has won at a national level five times and gained Honours (top three schools) seven times. * A Clontarf Football Academy and a 'Follow the Dream' aspirant program for Aboriginal students. Some of the school's excellent facilities include: * A $5.1 million Trades Training Centre for the VET program. * A $7.53 million Junior Campus providing a separate area for year 8 and 9 students in this 'school within a school'. * An 800 hectare school farm that produces sheep, cattle and broad acre crops on a commercial basis. * A four hectare agricultural demonstration block on the town site for agriculture, horticulture, animal raising (e.g. chickens, ducks) and horse riding. * A Library and Learning Centre with state of the art information and communications technology (ICT) equipment. * The Esperance Community Education Campus, a..