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Carmel School, Perth

Carmel School is a private Modern Orthodox Jewish school founded in 1959 in Perth, Western Australia. It offers Jewish religious and cultural education as well as conventional secular education for students from Kindergarten to Year 12 through a full-time primary school and a high school. It is the only Jewish day school in Western Australia.

Notable students include singer Troye Sivan and his brother and musician Tyde Levi.

The Perth Hebrew School, housed by the Perth Hebrew Congregation was the forerunner to Carmel School.

In 1957 a Jewish kindergarten was opened with 17 pupils, which led to the creation of Carmel School in 1959. Its first location was adjacent to the Brisbane Street synagogue, before moving to its current location in Yokine in 1962. The junior high school was opened in 1974 and in 1978 the senior high school was completed.[full citation needed]

In 1984, the school's synagogue complex was opened in a ceremony led by Joe Berinson, Attorney-General of Western Australia, and consecrated by Rabbi Shalom Coleman. The building was designed by architect, John Silbert.

The student body doubled in size between 1984 and 1988, from 250 to 500 students. The increase was led by new arrivals from South Africa. In 1987, a quarter of students had South African parents, with South African children accounting for 60% of some class years.

In 1992, the school made changes to its enrollment policies, enabling more children affiliated with Reform Judaism and Temple David to attend. It would, for the first time, begin to accept children that are not Jewish according to Orthodox Jewish halacha definitions. It would also become open to non-Jewish students. However, in both instances, prospective students would be screened by Perth Hebrew Congregation rabbi, Dovid Freilich. The change came after three-quarters of surveyed parents supporting a more open enrollment policy.

In November 2006 the school opened an Early Learning Centre which houses students from Kindergarten to Year 1.

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