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Learn MoreKatanning Senior High School serves a multicultural and linguistically diverse community including Afghani, African, Burmese, Chinese, Karen, Malay, Maori, Noongar and Thai. We celebrate and respect individual differences and work in harmony to ensure success for all students. We are the senior high school of choice for the great southern region.
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Engaged Learning
At our school, your child will have the opportunity to engage in a challenging and comprehensive educational program within a caring and nurturing school.
Individual Approach
Your child’s individual academic and social needs will be met within a school that values achievement, respect, tolerance, and perseverance. Our professional and experienced teachers are committed to ensuring that all students strive to excel.
Community Partnerships
At Katanning Senior High School, the success of our students is demonstrated by direct entry into university, apprenticeships, traineeships or employment. Graduates from Katanning Senior High School achieve in many different areas including business, academia, trades, teaching and human services.
Rise to the challenge with Bush Ranger Cadets
The mission of the Bush Ranger Cadet program is to support young Western Australians to take an active and lead role in the conservation of the natural environment and to understand the mechanisms for its management.
Developing creativity and critical thinking through STEM
Lower school students have one lesson a week in the STEM room where they develop their capabilities in critical and creative thinking as they learn to: generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives, and solve problems.
Get a head start with vocational pathways
With the Great Southern Trade Training Centre on site, KSHS Students get an early start towards a Vocational Pathway in the Automotive and Engineering Industries if they choose to. The facilities include vehicle hoists, CNC Plasma cutter, CNC Lathes, and Miling Machines, Hydraulic guillotine and Pan brake and a host of Welding Technologies.
Follow the dream
Katanning Senior High School offers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students the opportunity to participate in the Follow the Dream: Partnerships for Success program (FTD).
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Year 7 Parent Information Session – 2027
Parents and students are warmly invited to attend our Year 7 Parent Information Session for students commencing at Katanning Senior High School in 2027.
📅 Monday 9 November 2026
🕕 6:00pm
📍 Katanning Senior High School Library
This session will provide information about starting Year 7 and give families an opportunity to learn more about the school.
For further information, please contact the school on
(08) 9898 1100.
We look forward to welcoming both parents and students.
KSHS Science Innovation Day
As part of Science Week, Katanning Senior High School welcomed Year 5 and 6 students from local primary schools for a day of hands-on science, technology and innovation.
We welcomed students from Katanning Primary School, Braeside Primary School, Nyabing Primary School, Kojonup District High School, Gnowangerup District High School and St Bernard’s Primary School. Students explored exciting activities including LEGO SPIKE robotics, Einstein First, Katanning Landcare, Plants 4 Space and wicking bed experiments run by KSHS staff.
We also undertook some crystal making and wicking bed creation with our Years 7 to 11 during this week. Students who attended developed their curiosity, creativity and problem-solving skills.
Thank you to our visiting schools, presenters and staff for making the day such a success and inspiring the next generation of scientists and innovators!
#ScienceWeek2026 #KSHS #Plants4Space #EinsteinFirst #Transition #KatanningLandcare #SchoolCommunityConnection #Katanning
🎌📚 New Anime & Manga Club! 📚🎌
Calling all anime and manga fans! 🌟
Join us for the launch of the Anime & Manga Club every Friday at lunchtime in the Library.
Come along to: ✨ Chat about your favourite anime and manga!
Whether you're a long-time fan or just curious to learn more, everyone is welcome!
📍 Library
🕛 Friday Lunchtimes
We look forward to seeing you there! 🎌📚✨
#KSHS #AnimeClub #MangaClub #LibraryLife #StudentActivities #FridayFun 🌸🎭📖
Year 7 students recently presented their finished Simple Machines to the rest of the cohort during STEM. They presented their designs, finished products, and asked some really good questions! It was great to see our students' creativity, hard work, and knowledge of simple machines come to life. Year 7 students will begin a new STEM project this term, and we look forward to sharing their progress with you. - Science Department
The Katanning Senior High School Board invites all members of the school community to attend the Annual Public Meeting.
📅 Thursday 12 November 2026
🕡 6.30pm
📍 KSHS Conference Room
The meeting provides an opportunity for the school community to hear about the Board's activities and achievements over the past year and future directions for the school.
All welcome.
📢🍽️👩🍳 Parent Helpers Needed 👩🍳🍽️📢
Mrs Malik is looking for parent helpers for:
🥐 Wednesday morning at school (approx. 1 hour)
🍴 Wednesday evening at the Valediction to assist with catering
If you can help, please call the school on 9891 1100.
Thank you for your support! 😊🍰☕️
✈️ Farewell, Class of 2026! 🎓
Today, we farewelled our amazing Class of 2026 at their final assembly, complete with a creative and entertaining airport theme! 🧳✈️
Our graduating students also created a fantastic video capturing their journey through high school, sharing special memories, highlights and words of wisdom for our younger students. 🎥💙
Before the assembly, our leavers enjoyed a delicious breakfast with staff, generously sponsored by our wonderful P&C. Light-hearted awards brought plenty of laughs, with staff presenting awards to students and students returning the favour! 😂🏆
Yesterday, the celebrations continued with a beautiful long-table lunch under the trees, kindly catered by Mohana Catering. 🌿🍽️
The week has been packed with fun and memorable activities, including a school scavenger hunt, Murder Mystery, a visit from the ice cream van 🍦 and the ever-popular Leavers Olympics! 🏅
A huge thank you to all the staff who helped make this final week so special for our leavers, and to our P&C and Mohana Catering for their generous support.
We look forward to celebrating the Class of 2026 once more at their Valediction next week. ❤️
Wishing our leavers all the very best as they take their next steps beyond Katanning Senior High School. The future is yours! 🌟
#katanningshs #ClassOf2026 #Katanningshsp&c #mohanacatering #seabreezeicecream
Congratulations 🥳 to the class of 2026.
Congratulations to all of you
It was a fantastic final assembly for the Year 12 Students. A great theme, an excellent farewell speech by the Principal. Great to see the students having a ball at the end. Congratulations & Best wishes to you all in whatever you have chosen in the next phase of your life. 👏👏👏
🎓✨ Year 12s – Final Week! ✨🎓
Our Year 12s began their last week at KSHS yesterday with a fun-filled day of memories, laughter and reflection!
The dress-up theme was ‘Childhood Photo Recreation’, with students recreating photos from their younger years. 📸 They also tested their knowledge of their high school journey in a Kahoot! quiz, got creative in a Bake-Off competition 🍰 and took time to write letters of thanks to those who have supported them along the way. 💌
A wonderful way to celebrate their journey and the memories made at KSHS. ❤️💙
#KatanningSHS #ClassOf2026
Congratulations 🥳 to the class of 2026
Congratulations year 12 and I hope you have a wonderful adventurous life ahead
Is your child entering Year 7 in 2028?
Applications for Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Entrance programs are now open!
Your child will learn alongside like-minded peers and follow an extended curriculum designed specifically for their needs.
These exceptional academic, arts and languages programs are available at select public secondary schools. This includes a fully selective academic school and an arts college.
Applications close 6 pm Friday 5 February 2027.
For more information visit the website www.education.wa.edu.au/gifted-and-talented.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we live and work, the Goreng Noongar peoples and their Elders, past present and emerging.
(08) 9891 1100
katanning.shs@education.wa.edu.au