St Patrick's Boys' School, Perth
St Patrick's Boys' School, Perth was a Roman Catholic parish primary school for boys located on Irwin St, Perth Western Australia. The school operated from 1878 until 1963, when its students were progressively transferred to Trinity College, Perth and CBC Perth. History The school was commonly called St Pat's and it was a low fee paying primary school for boys. In 1894, the Congregation of Christian Brothers, at the invitation of Bishop Matthew Gibney, opened CBC Perth and took over the administration of St Patrick's as well as providing teaching staff. When the Brothers took over the running of the school there were 40 enrolled students. By the turn of the century, six years later, the school had 160 enrolled students. In 1907, St Patrick's relocated to a new larger school on the corner of Wellington and Lord Streets at the bottom of the hill near St Mary's Cathedral. The site later became part of Royal Perth Hospital. The new school had a primary and a secondary school. Enrolments peaked at over 400 students. In 1938, the boarders at CBC Perth and a number of day students transferred to the new Aquinas College campus at Salter Point. To ease the