[2] Notable students include singer Troye Sivan and his brother and musician Tyde Levi.

[4] In 1984, the school's synagogue complex was opened in a ceremony led by Joe Berinson, Attorney-General of Western Australia, and consecrated by Rabbi Shalom Coleman.

[7] In 1992, the school made changes to its enrollment policies, enabling more children affiliated with Reform Judaism and Temple David to attend.

[9] In November 2006 the school opened an Early Learning Centre which houses students from Kindergarten to Year 1.

The school has officially adopted The Jewish War Memorial (located on Fraser Avenue, Kings Park).

[17] The entire campus has a No Meat policy and all food on site is encouraged to be in accordance with the kashrut laws.

The School's goal is for all Jewish children to be able to access a Carmel education and so it offers fee assistance where possible, on application.

A study of Jewish schools in Australia by Sophie E. Gelski entitled The Missing Paradigm, cited Dr Judith Berman's research Berman's 1998 and 2001 research, which focused on "the Jewish day school experience in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, over a fifty year period".

She noted that "although the time devoted to teaching the Holocaust had increased, it did vary between a one semester course at Carmel School".

A court case ensued in which,[20] the [family] was handed a letter stating specific religious restrictions which would be placed on their son because he was not Jewish according to Orthodox definitions, and therefore prohibited by halacha from participating in some school programs.

[21][22] In 2008, a Carmel School science teacher committed suicide after being "linked to child sex-offense allegations".