Public, Academic Extension Bull Creek, Perth Founded 1968

Rossmoyne Senior High School.

WA's largest school by enrolment at 2,816 students (2025). Located in Bull Creek (despite the name), with an Academic Extension program that anchors one of the strongest non-selective public ATAR cohorts in the state.

Inside Rossmoyne SHS

Rossmoyne Senior High School was founded in 1968 and is now the largest school in Western Australia by enrolment, with 2,816 students as of 2025. Despite the name, the campus is actually located on Keith Road in Bull Creek, a southern riverside suburb, in the City of Melville. The school serves a substantial catchment across Bull Creek, Rossmoyne, Riverton, Shelley, and surrounding southern suburbs.

Rossmoyne's defining academic feature is its Academic Extension (AE) program, which takes students who have demonstrated high achievement through their performance in core subjects. The AE program runs across multiple year levels and provides accelerated and extension coursework for the school's top academic students.

Rossmoyne is recognised as often the best-performing public school in WA outside the fully selective Perth Modern. The Heads of Learning Areas (HOLAs) monitor student progress and plan either extension or extra support for individual students; with the school's large cohort numbers, each Learning Area can group students into classes based on individual needs.

What Rossmoyne SHS is known for

Largest school in WA

2,816 students. The scale enables program breadth, depth in subject offerings, and the ability to stream students by ability in ways smaller schools can't replicate.

Academic Extension program

The AE program is the school's flagship for top-end students. Multi-year extension structure provides genuine acceleration, not just enrichment.

Top non-selective public school

Rossmoyne and Willetton swap places year-to-year for the top non-selective public school in WA. Both are in the same southern catchment region.

Riverside Bull Creek campus

Despite the Rossmoyne name, the campus is in Bull Creek with reasonable river-adjacent grounds and good public transport access.

Things to consider

Rossmoyne SHS isn't the right fit for every student. Here are the genuine tradeoffs to think through, drawn from publicly available information about the school.

Very large school

2,816 students is the largest in the state. Strong students tend to thrive; quieter students can struggle to be noticed without proactive engagement.

AE entry is competitive

Academic Extension entry is based on Year 7 or Year 8 performance. Most students are in the general cohort, not AE.

Catchment competition

The Rossmoyne / Willetton corridor is one of WA's most academically competitive public-school regions. Student stress at the top end can be significant.

Public school resourcing

Rossmoyne is well-run for a public school but its co-curricular depth and campus facilities don't match top private schools.

The ATAR pathway at Rossmoyne SHS

Rossmoyne AE students take ambitious ATAR plates. Most common: Extension STEM (Methods + Specialist + Physics + Chemistry), Pre-medicine (Methods + Chemistry + Human Bio + English), Humanities / Law (Literature + History + a Language + Methods), and Commerce (Methods + Economics + English + a science).

UWA and Curtin are the dominant tertiary destinations. Rossmoyne's top students compete with Perth Modern's middle band for medicine and engineering at UWA, and a meaningful interstate cohort heads to Melbourne and ANU.

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From Rossmoyne SHS to our Canning Vale centre

About 6 km from our Canning Vale centre, 12 minutes via Bull Creek Drive. Many Rossmoyne students prefer this route after school over driving home and out again.

Tutoring built for Rossmoyne SHS students.

Small-group ATAR classes at our Canning Vale centre or live online, for the subjects Rossmoyne SHS students are actually sitting. Free trial class, no card required.

Rossmoyne SHS questions

Common questions from Rossmoyne SHS families

How far is Rossmoyne Senior High School from Educatta's centres?

About 6 km from our Canning Vale centre, 12 minutes via Bull Creek Drive. Many Rossmoyne students prefer this route after school over driving home and out again.

Does Educatta tutor the subjects Rossmoyne Senior High School students typically take?

Yes. Educatta tutors all the major ATAR subjects Rossmoyne Senior High School students are sitting: Mathematics Methods, Mathematics Applications, English, Chemistry, Physics, and Human Biology. Year 11 and 12 students from Rossmoyne Senior High School can attend small-group classes at our Canning Vale centre, or live online from anywhere in WA.

Can Rossmoyne Senior High School students attend Educatta classes after school?

Yes. Most of our weekly classes run between 4:00pm and 8:30pm on weekdays, with weekend slots also available. Rossmoyne Senior High School's school day finishes in time for students to arrive at our Canning Vale centre for after-school weekly classes.