International Baccalaureate in Mandurah, WA

Anglican girls school in Mosman Park, Perth. Among WA's highest ICSEA girls' schools

Best for: Among WA's highest ICSEA girls' schools

Anglican boys school in Claremont, Perth. Top-performing non-selective WACE/ATAR results

Best for: Top-performing non-selective WACE/ATAR results

Independent (Uniting Church) boys school in Swanbourne, Perth. Authorised IB World School (PYP, MYP, DP)

Best for: Authorised IB World School (PYP, MYP, DP)

Anglican boys school in Wembley Downs, Perth. Oldest boys' school in WA (1858)

Best for: Oldest boys' school in WA (1858)

Catholic Jesuit + Loreto co-educational school in Mount Claremont, Perth. Founded 1977.

Best for: Joint Jesuit + Loreto Sisters foundation

Anglican co-educational school in Bull Creek, Perth. Founded 1981.

Best for: Modern Anglican co-ed school

Anglican girls' school in Mount Lawley, Perth. Founded 1902.

Boarding: $22,400/yr (additional to tuition)

Best for: Strong WACE + IB academic outcomes

Independent (Uniting Church / Methodist heritage) boys (co-educational to Year 6) school in South Perth, Perth. 100+ year Methodist heritage

Best for: 100+ year Methodist heritage

Anglican girls school in Karrinyup, Perth. ~171 boarders Years 6-12 (largest Anglican girls' boarding in WA)

Best for: ~171 boarders Years 6-12 (largest Anglican girls' boarding in WA)

Independent (Uniting Church / Methodist heritage) girls school in Claremont, Perth. ~90 boarders from regional WA

Best for: ~90 boarders from regional WA

Uniting Church girls' school in Como, Perth. Founded 1952.

Boarding: $21,800/yr (additional to tuition)

Best for: Mid-fee Uniting Church girls school

Catholic Presentation Sisters girls' school in Mosman Park, Perth. Founded 1907.

Best for: Presentation Sisters Nano Nagle tradition

WA's only Jewish day school — a small Modern Orthodox Zionist co-ed K-12 community school in Dianella with a high ICSEA (1147).

Best for: Very high ICSEA of 1147 — among the highest of any WA school in this comparison set and well above the national average of 1000 (76th-90th+ percentile band)

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 fee is the official 2026 'Years 9-12' total annual tuition of 24,850 (Year 7 is 21,182), taken from the school's 2026 Fees and Charges PDF. That figure is inclusive of the Jewish Studies program but excludes

Co-ed Anglican secondary school (Years 7-12) in the Perth CBD, WA's first vertical high-rise school and the only co-ed school in the city centre.

Best for: Western Australia's first 'vertical' school — a high-rise CBD campus (50 William St plus an expanded Murray St campus) rather than a traditional grounds-based school, and the only co-ed school in the heart of Perth city

Note: Fee year 2025. Year 12 fee 14620 and Year 7 fee 13094 are from goodschools.com.au (sourced from the school); goodschools did not state the fee year so it is most likely 2025 — flagged as feeYearActual 2025. The school publishes a

Catholic Sisters of Mercy girls' school in Perth CBD. Founded 1846.

Best for: Mercy Sisters Catherine McAuley tradition

Catholic girls' Year 5-Year 12 day and boarding college in Attadale run by Mercy Education, with about 150 regional boarders.

Boarding: $30,434/yr (additional to tuition)

Best for: Mercy Education girls' college (Sisters of Mercy, est. 1938) on an elevated Swan River site; one of WA's leading Catholic girls' schools with ICSEA ~1117

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 tuition $15,898 (same band as Year 11) and Year 7 tuition $15,299 confirmed directly from the official 2026 Fees, Charges and Business Arrangements PDF; tuition excludes the Digital Learning Levy, Curriculum

Secular co-ed independent K-12 day school in Glen Forrest, the leading non-religious independent option in the Perth Hills, with a Darlington junior campus.

Best for: Two-campus structure: Junior School (Kindergarten-Year 5) at the original Darlington Campus, and Senior School (Years 6-12) on an 8.3-hectare site at Glen Forrest, established 1988

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 fee 17932 and Year 7 fee 17604 are the official 2026 figures from the school's tuition page (Years 11-12 band 17932; Years 7-10 band 17604), excluding early-payment and sibling discounts. ICSEA 1116 confirme

Catholic (Edmund Rice) boys school in East Perth, Perth. ACC sport (basketball, football, rowing)

Best for: ACC sport (basketball, football, rowing)

Catholic co-ed Pre-Kindergarten-Year 12 day school in Churchlands run in the Marist tradition, one of Perth's largest Catholic colleges (~1,900 students).

Best for: Marist-tradition Catholic college and founding member of the Association of Marist Schools of Australia; formed in 1977 by amalgamating Marist Brothers, Dominican Sisters and Brigidine Sisters schools

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 tuition $10,949 is the published 'Years 11 and 12' band; Year 7 is the 'Year 7 to Year 10' band at $9,567. Both confirmed directly from the official 2026 Fees & Charges PDF. Day school only, no boarding. ICS

Co-educational Catholic Year 7-12 college in beachside Sorrento, founded 1967 by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions and alma mater of Canva's Melanie Perkins.

Best for: Highest ICSEA of these four WA Catholic colleges at 1112 (well above the national average of 1000), reflecting a strongly advantaged coastal catchment

Note: Fee year 2025. ICSEA 1112 confirmed via ACARA/Cluey. Year 12 day tuition of $8,783 sourced from goodschools.com.au, which does not state the fee year - it is likely 2025 (the school's own 2026 fee-schedule PDF was not retrievable;

Anglican co-ed Kindergarten-Year 12 day and boarding school in Guildford, on the River near Perth airport, founded 1896 with a heritage-listed chapel.

Boarding: $28,580/yr (additional to tuition)

Best for: Heritage Federation Gothic Chapel of St Mary and St George (consecrated 1914), home to the Windsor Bible gifted by Queen Elizabeth II after the 1980 fire

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 day tuition $29,275 (Years 10-12 all sit at the same $29,275 tuition band) confirmed directly from the official 2026 Domestic Fees and Charges PDF; this excludes the Year 12 Resource Levy ($1,414) and boardi

Independent (Uniting Church / Presbyterian heritage) girls school in Peppermint Grove, Perth. IB Diploma World School

Best for: IB Diploma World School

Anglican co-educational school in Gelorup, regional WA. Founded 1990. Day + boarding.

Boarding: $32,600/yr (additional to tuition)

Best for: South-west WA Anglican boarding

Catholic co-ed Kindergarten-Year 12 day college in Bateman, south of the river, with low flat fees and large sibling discounts (~1,750 students).

Best for: Affordable co-ed Catholic college (flat $9,390 tuition across Years 7-12) with steep sibling discounts: 20% second child, 40% third, 100% fourth and beyond

Note: Fee year 2026. Tuition is a flat $9,390 across all Senior School years (Year 7 through Year 12), confirmed directly from the official 2026 Fees & Charges PDF (Senior School table); this excludes Year Level Fee, Device Levy, Digita

Independent Baptist co-ed secondary college (Years 7-12) in Murdoch, on the Murdoch University campus, notable as Matildas captain Sam Kerr's old school.

Best for: ICSEA 1093 (above the Perth independent-Baptist average); one of WA's largest co-ed secondary colleges at roughly 1,100-1,240 students Years 7-12

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 tuition is the flat 2026 first-child tuition of 11,990 confirmed on the official fees page (kennedy.wa.edu.au/enrol/fees/) — Kennedy charges a single tuition rate across Year 7-12, with only a small year-lev

Historic Catholic boys' day college (Years 7-12) in the port city of Fremantle, run in the Edmund Rice / Christian Brothers tradition since 1882.

Best for: One of WA's oldest schools - the Christian Brothers opened the Fremantle boys' school in 1882 (formally from 1883), giving it a 140+ year history

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 tuition $14,200 and Year 7 tuition $13,900 taken directly from the official 2026 Schedule of Fees and Charges PDF (extracted via PDF text). On top of tuition an ICT Levy of $950/year applies to every year le

Large two-campus (Duncraig and Carramar) co-educational Uniting Church K-12 school in Perth's northern suburbs, strong in both WACE and VET pathways.

Best for: One of the largest independent schools in WA - around 2,050 students across two campuses (Duncraig, opened 1983/84, and Carramar/Tapping, opened 2001); the first school established by the Uniting Church WA

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 tuition $12,448 and Year 7 tuition $10,032 taken directly from the official 2026 Fee Schedule PDF (extracted via PDF text). The school also publishes a bundled 'TOTAL' (Year 12 total $14,765 incl. $954 capit

Low-fee Anglican (ASC) co-ed Pre-K-12 school on a single coastal campus in Mindarie, north of Perth, with a strong ICSEA of 1084.

Best for: ICSEA 1084 (about the 80th percentile nationally) achieved on a deliberately low-fee model — Year 12 tuition around 8,160 makes it one of the most affordable Anglican K-12 schools in Perth's northern corridor

Note: Fee year 2025. Year 12 tuition 8,160 (Year 7 7,405) sourced from Good Schools Guide's fee listing — the school's own site keeps the dollar figures in a downloadable PDF that was not machine-readable, so feeYearActual is marked 202

Anglican co-educational school in Geraldton, regional WA. Founded 1980.

Boarding: $30,200/yr (additional to tuition)

Best for: Mid-west WA Anglican school

Catholic co-educational secondary college (Years 7-12) in the northern coastal suburb of Ocean Reef; alma mater of Brownlow Medallist Matt Priddis.

Best for: Brownlow Medallist and West Coast Eagles premiership player Matt Priddis is an alumnus (started at the College in 1998)

Note: Fee year 2026. Year 12 tuition $9,515 and Year 7 tuition $8,564 taken directly from the official 2026 Fees & Charges PDF on the College website (extracted via PDF text). ICSEA 1074 reported via Cluey Learning/Good Schools Guide (s

Catholic boys' day and boarding college in the hills suburb of Lesmurdie, the only Oblates of Mary Immaculate school in WA, with around 100 boarders.

Boarding: $24,200/yr (additional to tuition)

Best for: The only Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) school in Western Australia, and one of the few remaining boys' boarding schools in the Perth foothills with ~100 boarders out of ~830 students

Note: Fee year 2026. 2026 fees confirmed directly from the school's official 2026 Schedule of Fees and Charges PDF: flat annual day tuition of $9,800 for Years 7-12, annual boarding fee $24,200 (on top of tuition), $840/family building

Large co-educational Catholic Year 7-12 college in Bedford, formed in 1989 from the Christian Brothers' and Dominican Sisters' schools, alma mater of the Australian Space Agency's Enrico Palermo.

Best for: One of the largest Catholic schools in WA at roughly 1,700 students; formed in 1989 by amalgamating the Christian Brothers' St Mark's College and the Dominican Sisters' St Thomas Aquinas College

Note: Fee year 2026. 2026 composite tuition confirmed directly from the school's official Schedule of Fees & Charges 2026 PDF: Year 7 $6,495, Year 12 $8,300 (full scale: Yr8 $6,855, Yr9 $7,210, Yr10 $7,570, Yr11 $7,940). Plus $351/famil

Large, affordable non-denominational Christian co-ed K-12 college in Middle Swan (Swan Valley), part of SCEA, with an on-site Trade Training Centre.

Best for: One of seven schools in the Swan Christian Education Association (SCEA); a large low-fee K-12 Christian college of around 1,500+ students in the Swan Valley

Note: Fee year 2025. Year 12 fee 9962 and Year 7 fee 9414 are from goodschools.com.au (sourced from the school). The official 2026 SCEA fee PDF (scea.wa.edu.au) could not be parsed (binary-encoded) so the exact 2026 figure is unconfirme

Affordable independent Lutheran K-12 co-educational college in Warnbro (City of Rockingham), known for its Pedal Prix human-powered-vehicle racing program.

Best for: Runs a signature Pedal Prix program (Years 8-12) - students design, build and race human-powered vehicles at events around Australia - alongside an Institute of Sport with Basketball and Gymnastics academies

Note: Fee year 2026. Tuition taken directly from the official 2026 Fees and Charges PDF (extracted via PDF tables): Year 7 $5,350 and 'Years 11 & 12' band $7,230 (the school publishes a combined Year 11-12 tuition figure, so $7,230 is u

Co-educational Catholic Year 7-12 college in Tuart Hill run by the Servite Friars, the first co-ed Catholic secondary school in WA and home to a Liverpool FC academy partnership.

Best for: One of only a handful of Servite Order (Order of Servants of Mary) schools in Australia; opened 1958 as St Philip's and became WA's first co-educational Catholic secondary school in 1973

Note: Fee year 2026. 2026 annual tuition confirmed from the school's own Schedule of Fees page: Year 7 $6,046, Year 12 $7,326. ICSEA 1031 from ACARA MySchool data. Day-only, no boarding, not CRICOS-registered. ~1,030 students (2025).

Catholic (Edmund Rice) boys school in Salter Point, Perth. PSA sport (rowing on Canning River)

Best for: PSA sport (rowing on Canning River)