St Mark’s is a private, independent and coeducational K-12 Anglican school, the foundation school of the Anglican Schools Commission, that aspires to be the leading school in Perth’s Northern corridor.

Our School is a centre of excellence in teaching and learning, pastoral care,worship, and service, providing a high quality, inclusive, caring, and accessible Christian education. Anglicanism underpins all aspects of life at St Mark’s. Discovery of our Anglican identity is offered to the School community – students, families, and staff – through exploring faith, cultivating reason, participating in worship, embracing pluralism, developing character and engaging in service.

Our community is important to us. Each student and each family is supportedto feel safe and to have a sense of belonging to the School community beyond their time as a student. Our School enables every student to be who they are and to engage in pathways appropriate to them, as they grow in an environment of high care and high challenge.

St Mark’s provides all students with opportunities to learn, grow and succeed through:

• relevant and personally meaningful curriculum;
• learning in both the classroom and through external partnerships; and
• group activities and service learning opportunities to discover more about themselves and others.

St Mark’s isn’t an 8.30 – 3.25 place – we encourage students to become part of the bigger community. 

St Mark’s is committed to providing well planned and organised co-curricular and extra-curricular activities to all students throughout the year.  We strive to provide opportunities to suit a range of student interests and abilities, and to encourage students to try new pursuits.

Students can participate in both interhouse and interschool programs at Primary and at Secondary School, with opportunities in a variety of fields, including sporting, cultural and academic activities.

Quality pastoral care influences the tone of the whole School, creating a caring and nurturing environment in which young people feel safe and secure. This allows students to have a voice, feel connected, and empowered to participate in the community, knowing that they belong to something important; it makes them feel valued and encouraged in their learning, personal growth and social development. 

St Mark’s Anglican Community School Our Admissions process embraces the diversity of our community, and we welcome all applications.

Our traditional intake years are Kindergarten (ELC), Year 2 and Year 4 (Junior School) and Year 6 (Middle School), but opportunities do arise in other year groups.

We are now inviting applications for students acros our Secondary School (Years 6 to 12).

For more information, please contact the Admissions Office on  (08) 9403 1327 or email admissions@stmarks.wa.edu.au.

St Mark's Middle School Academic Scholarships

 At St Mark's, we pride ourselves on providing an environment that encourages students to explore and flourish. Our Middle School provides students with a learning environment that enables them to experiment, discover and create. Not only will students be provided with opportunities to develop their academic skills with a robust curriculum, they will also be provided with a place to develop and nurture friendships and experience personal growth.  Year 6 is part of Middle School at St Mark's, and we provide a supportive environment as they take those first crucial steps into Secondary, with a carefully designed transition program. Discover more about our Middle School values and curriculum . As a way of encouraging excellence in education and rewarding high achievement, St Mark’s is offers a limited number of Academic Scholarships for students entering Year 6. 

St Mark’s Anglican Community School is the first school in Western Australia to offer a Drone Piloting course - the Certificate III in Aviation (Remote Pilot – Visual Line of Sight) -  as part of our Senior School offerings in 2019.

Through the course, St Mark’s is set to deliver a future-focused program that appeals to (and inspires) students in both General and ATAR pathways. The program is a fantastic opportunity for students to think and work in different ways and gain accreditation towards achievement of their WACE.

Successful completion of the course will provide students with a skill set to achieve a nationally recognised qualification, leading to career opportunities in an innovative and rapidly developing industry. It is exciting to be able to offer a hands-on approach to learning in an authentic and exciting STEM context.

Globally, there is a compelling need to develop transferable learning-how-to-learn capabilities in young people that enable them to thrive and contribute to ever-changing, new and challenging contexts.

St Mark’s encourage students to apply their knowledge and practical skills and processes when using technologies and other resources to create innovative solutions, independently and collaboratively, that meet current and future needs. The educational opportunities offered to students are designed to engage, excite and challenge.

St Mark’s values the development, implementation and use of technologies to enrich the curriculum and provide flexibility to its delivery, and engage students in learning. We are working to empower students to become cooperative and collaborative workers, dynamic problem-solvers, creative and critical thinkers and digitally literate citizens.

The course will run under the auspices of the St Mark’s Science Department. The announcement last year that the School was to offer the course was met with a very positive response from students, commencing with two classes this year.

St Mark’s Anglican Community School was established in and by the local community in 1986 and has grown to be a thriving learning community of approximately 1,800 students in 2021 from Kindergarten to Year 12. The School employs over 200 staff, including teachers, education assistants, music tutors and administrative, grounds and maintenance staff.

The School’s Christian ethos, Anglican identity and values promote a positive and respectful work environment and a culture which attracts and retains high quality staff by fostering professionalism, collegiality, commitment, loyalty and strong pastoral care.

At St Mark’s, there are ‘opportunities for all’. We aim to maximise opportunities for our students to build rewarding and fulfilling futures, based around the skills and competencies required to navigate the challenges of a world that is changing in its nature in this 21^st century. A variety of pathways are available at and through the School, and they can be tailored to facilitate these futures for students.

The maintenance of a child-safe environment at St Mark’s is paramount, and the sense of community that pervades the School and supports our young people in their learning, growth and development is at our core.

The School's current Strategic Plan, launched early in 2021, outlines four strategic focus areas for the following five years:

• Lifelong Learning: Our community is characterised by individual and collective commitment to lifelong learning that embraces knowledge, skills, curiosity, authenticity, connectedness and reflection.
• Holistic Wellbeing: Our community is characterised by its support and development of the holistic wellbeing of all.
• Rounded Character: Our community is characterised by an aim to ‘grow good people’ who are ethical, respectful, honest, empathetic, confident, capable, and concerned citizens of the world.
• Stewardship and Sustainability: Our community is characterised by responsible management and forward-looking leadership.

Our Strategic Plan will steer a course for us in our quest for continuous school improvement. The School’s Master Plan will ensure the continued development of contemporary learning spaces for the 21^st Century, set amidst attractive, open grounds that enable effective learning, the development of positive relationships between our students and a sense of belonging and connectedness.

A commitment to developing the ‘whole person’ is central to a St Mark’s education through a diverse and enriching set of learning experiences provided across all Learning Areas, and including distinctive and engaging programs in the arts, sport, outdoor education and service to the community.

St Mark’s students are encouraged to always be their best selves, and this is reflected in their compassion, acceptance and care of others, resilience, achievement in a pathway that is appropriate and relevant to them, their sense of community and global responsibility. The values of the School are central to all of this. The two great commandments, to love God and to love one’s neighbour as you love yourself, underpin the strong relationships and partnership between students, parents and staff. This ethos typifies the St Mark’s community, creating a safe and positive environment in which to work and learn.

Families who wish to explore the opportunity to secure a St Mark’s education for their children are encouraged to contact the School so that further, and more personalised, information may be provided.

We invite you to join our community to give your children the opportunity to flourish.

Mr Steven Davies, BApp Sc, GradDipEd, MEdL

Principal