A new high school in Western Australia will be named Bob Hawke College after the late former prime minister.

Key points: The school is being built on the former Kitchener Park in Subiaco and is due to open in 2020

The school is being built on the former Kitchener Park in Subiaco and is due to open in 2020 The former PM grew up and went to school nearby

The former PM grew up and went to school nearby Education Minister Sue Ellery said the decision to name it after Mr Hawke was hers

As the State Government released a new computer generated fly-through video of what the secondary college, currently being built on the former Kitchener Park site in Subiaco, would look like, WA Premier Mark McGowan joined Education and Training Minister Sue Ellery to announce its official name.

"Bob grew up across the train tracks right there, he went to West Leederville Primary and he went to Perth Mod each day to go to high school," Mr McGowan said.

"So obviously building a brand-new inner-city school where Bob's life and formative years were and naming it after Bob Hawke I think is entirely appropriate."

Australia's 23rd prime minister and Labor Party legend died on May 16, aged 89, at his home in Sydney.

Bob Hawke moved into this home in West Leederville in 1939 when he was just nine years old, after moving to Perth with his parents. ( ABC News: Madeline Palmer )

Mr Hawke was the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister, holding office from 1983 to 1991.

In 1939, at the age of nine, he moved to Perth with his parents.

He studied law at The University of Western Australia, where he became guild president in 1951 and then won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford in England.

Education Minister Sue Ellery said the decision to name it after Bob Hawke was hers.

"The normal process that schools go through is to do a consultation," she said.

"Ultimately, it's the same debate that occurs with every new school, do you name it after a suburb, do you name it after the geography, do you name it after a local identity.

"In the end, the passing of Mr Hawke confirmed in my mind that this would be an appropriate and fitting way to honour him."

The Premier said he had spoken to someone close to Mr Hawke's wife, Blanche d'Alpuget, about the name of the school.

"Blanche was thrilled," he said.

"I've consulted fairly widely about it, I've spoken to a wide range of people, in fact, lots of people were supportive of it."

The $71 million Bob Hawke College is due to be completed and take on the first cohort of 250 year seven students next year.

The college is the seventh school in Western Australia to be named after a former politician, including Governor Stirling Senior High School and Cyril Jackson Senior Campus.