Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School is a comprehensive public co-educational high day and boarding school, located in Kalgoorlie, a regional centre located in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. Along with Eastern Goldfields College the school was formerly known as Eastern Goldfields Senior High School until the campuses were separated. History The school was established in 2006 and caters for students from Year 7 to Year 10. Paul Matthews was the inaugural principal and was followed by Terry Martino in 2010. Terry Martino moved to Northam Senior High School in 2013 and was replaced by the deputy principal Vicki Bogensperger. The current principal is Douglas Dearle, since 2020. Early in 2012 the school received a commendation award from the local chamber of commerce. The deputy principal, Vicki Bogensperger, accepted the award on behalf of Terry Martino and remarked "We are on an improvement journey at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School and in a sense, the work will never be complete." Later the same year the school was reviewed by Expert Review Group appointed by the Department of Education. The director of the group commented on the "dramatic improvements at the school" in the areas of uniform, behaviour and mobile phone policy. The director, Brett Hunt, also commented "The school’s environment has a long history of being unsettled, but we found the current team has focused on developing a welcoming, structured and predictable environment for everyone." At the start of the 4th term of 2016, the first stage of KBCHS' $45 million redevelopment program was completed and opened, which includes new English, Mathematics and Humanities building blocks, and previous buildings were demolished to make way for stages 2 and 3. In July 2017, the second stage was completed, which included the new Visual Arts and Eastern Goldfields Education Support Centre buildings. The third stage was completed and opened in late 2017, which involved landscaping and new pathways connecting stages 1 and 2, and fully completed the school's redevelopment. Enrolment Enrolments at the school have fluctuated with total enrolments ranging from 510 (2010) to 1,036 (2015). The migration of Year 7 students to public high schools were the likely cause in the 301 enrolment number spike from 2014 to 2015. Incidents The school had many reported incidents of violence in 2009 between indigenous and Maori students, resulting in cultural advisors being employed to tackle the problem. The school was in the headlines in