Public, Academic Extension Bull Creek, Perth Founded 1968

Rossmoyne Senior High School.

WA's largest public secondary school by enrolment at 2,836 students (2026). 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 public secondary school in Western Australia by enrolment, with 2,836 students at Semester 1, 2026. 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 consistently among the strongest public schools in WA for ATAR results, sitting near the top of independent analyses alongside Willetton and behind the fully selective Perth Modern. The WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority stopped publishing per-school median ATARs after 2022, so any recent state ranking is a third-party estimate, not an official figure. 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 public school in WA

2,836 students at Semester 1, 2026. 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.

Among WA's strongest public schools

Rossmoyne and Willetton trade places year to year near the top of WA's public-school ATAR results, behind the fully selective Perth Modern. Both are in the same southern catchment region. Note Rossmoyne's centrally-run Gifted and Talented stream is a languages program; its academic acceleration runs through the school's own AE program.

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

2,836 students makes it the largest public secondary school 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.

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.