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Bossley Park High School
Bossley Park High School (abbreviated as BPHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Bossley Park, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1988, the school enrolled approximately 1,500 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom one percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 82 percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education in accordance with a curriculum developed by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority. The school's catchment area includes the rapidly developing suburbs of Bossley Park and Abbotsbury in western Sydney. In 1999 it was revealed by ''The Sunday Telegraph'' that Bossley Park High School was the richest state high school which had a bank balance of more 7 million. In 2004, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' revealed the school had more than $10 million in reserves. History Bossley Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossley Park
Bossley Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bossley Park is located 36 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield. Bossley Park is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. History Bossley Park was named after John Brown Bossley (1810–72), an English chemist who purchased a large block of land on Smithfield Road. He named his property ''Edensor'' after a village in Derbyshire, England. When the area north of Edensor was subdivided in 1890, it became known as Bossley Park. The public school was built in 1890 and a post office in 1895. After World War II, Bossley Park received many migrants from Italy, who have since played a large role in the local community. Bossley Park and its surrounding suburbs were rural areas until the 1970s, when they were developed into a residential settlement. Demographics According to the 2021 census of population, there were 15,492 residents in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |