Aquinas College, locally abbreviated as Aquinas, is an independent Roman Catholic single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys, located at Salter Point, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Aquinas opened in 1938, when the headmaster, boarders and day students from Christian Brothers' College, Perth (CBC Perth) moved to the new campus at Salter Point. The history of Aquinas begins with CBC Perth which was founded in 1894 on St Georges Terrace in the Perth. Aquinas was the beneficiary of CBC Perth's history, honours and achievements for the period 1894–1937. The campus at Aquinas was built on elevated land which is part of the site at Salter Point. The site includes a large area of bushland on the Mount Henry Peninsula with over of water frontage on the Canning River. Currently, Aquinas College accepts day students from Kindergarten to Year 12 and boarding students from Years 7 to 12. School fees range from $5,937 for a Kindergarten day student to $46,404 for a Year 12 international boarding student. The campus includes expansive sporting grounds, and boarding facilities for 210 students. The College is affiliated with the Public Schools Association (PSA), the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, and the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia. History Foundation The Christian Brothers opened Christian Brothers College (CBC Perth), on 31 January 1894. CBC Perth was built on the corner of St Georges Terrace and Victoria Avenue in Perth. The college was also commonly called CBC Terrace. CBC Perth was the first Christian Brothers school as well as the second oldest high school and the second oldest boarding school in Western Australia. The Brothers were invited to the colony by Bishop Matthew Gibney who knew of the work of the Brothers in Ireland, England, and in the eastern colonies of Australia. At first, CBC Perth was a day school. However, due to the rapid population growth in Western Australia during the gold rush, the Christian Brothers were pressured to allow boarders to live in makeshift conditions at the college. The first boarding students were enrolled in June 1896. Accommodation at the site was very limited and overcrowded. In 1917, Brother Paul Nunan, headmaster of the college, set-about acquiring a larger property away from the city center in order to reside the whole school on a much larger campus. College schism At