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List Of Selective High Schools In New South Wales
This is a list of selective and agricultural high schools run by the Department of Education. Entry to these schools is managed centrally by the department's Selective High School and Opportunity Class Placement Unit. Prospective students sit the Selective High Schools Test (typically in March of Year 6) and are allocated places at schools according to their profile mark, out of 300, which comprises both exam and school marks. Students may list up to four preferred schools. A number of other government and non-government high schools also select their students based on merit; these include, for example, creative and performing arts schools, and some private schools. Schools 1 Previously known as Manly Boys High School (1954–1983) and Manly High School (1983–2002). 2 Year of amalgamation of Dover Heights High School and Vaucluse High School. 3 Previously known as Malvina High School (1965–2001) and foundation year for selective stream. Creative and performing arts hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selective School (New South Wales)
Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education that accept their students based upon their academic merit. Each year, approximately 15,000 Year 6 students across the state of New South Wales optionally undertake the Selective High School Placement Test to seek one of the 3,600 places offered for first-year entry into selective high schools. For Year 8 to Year 12 entry into selective schools, students do not take an external test, however they can apply directly to a school for entry. The application package is standard to all government selective schools, with internal selection committees considering applications each year in August–September. History The first government selective high schools in NSW were established in the late 19th and early 20th century. The selective school system at the turn of the 20th century included both schools newly established as selective schools, and older schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservatorium High School
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Granville Boys High School
Granville Boys High School is a government-funded single-sex secondary day school, located at Granville a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Granville Boys High School (abbreviated as GBHS) is an academically selective and comprehensive senior secondary day school for 530 boys, 99% of whom are from non-English speaking backgrounds. History The school site before 1923 was owned by the Bergan family, who owned the local Woollen Mill. The only building on the block bounded by Mary, Lumley, Maud and Hutchinson streets was the weatherboard family house of James and John Bergan and their three sisters. The block at the time was fenced partly by a three-rail and partly by a picket fence. Shrubs and bamboos grew at the back of the house and along the fence bordering on Maud Street. Many huge trees were also on the property, and these were where surrounding buildings were erected. In spite of opposition from the Granville War Memorial committee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafton, New South Wales
Grafton ( Bundjalung-Yugambeh: Gumbin Gir) is a city in the Northern Rivers region of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located on the Clarence River, approximately by road north-northeast of the state capital Sydney. The closest major cities, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, are located across the border in South-East Queensland. At the 2021 census, Grafton had a population of 19,255. The city is the largest settlement and, with Maclean, the shared administrative centre of the Clarence Valley Council local government area, which is home to over 50,000 people in all. History Before European settlement, the Clarence River marked the border between the BundjalungTindale, Norman (1974) "Badjalang" in his ''Catalogue of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafton High School (New South Wales)
Grafton High School (abbreviated as GHS) is Education in Australia#Government schools, government-funded Mixed-sex school, co-educational dual modality partially Selective school (New South Wales), academically selective and Comprehensive school, comprehensive secondary school, secondary day school, located in , in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1912, the school enrolled approximately 900 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 15 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and four percent were from a English as a second or foreign language, language background other than English. The school is operated by the Department of Education (New South Wales), NSW Department of Education; the Principal (school), principal is Scott Dinham. History Grafton High School was established on 1 January 1912 and opened on 1 July of that year as a formal education system was being established in New South Wales. A new building opened on 17 May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosford, New South Wales
Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council (New South Wales), Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast region, about north of Sydney central business district, Sydney and about south of Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle. The city centre is situated at the northern extremity of Brisbane Water, an extensive northern branch of the Hawkesbury River estuary and Broken Bay. The suburb is the administrative centre and Central Business District of the Central Coast region, which is the third largest urban area in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle. Following its formation from the combination of the previous Gosford City Council and Wyong Shire Councils, Gosford has been earmarked as a vital CBD spine under the NSW Metropolitan Strategy. The population of the Gosford area was 169,053 in 2016. History Until History of Australia (1788–1850), white settlement, the area ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosford High School
Gosford High School (abbreviated as GHS) is a Education in Australia#Government schools, government-funded Mixed-sex school, co-educational Selective school (New South Wales), academically selective secondary school, secondary day school, located in Gosford, New South Wales, Gosford, in the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1928, the school enrolled approximately 1,070 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom two percent identified as Indigenous Australians and forty percent were from a English as a second or foreign language, language background other than English. The school is operated by the Department of Education (New South Wales), NSW Department of Education; the Principal (school), principal is Michael Smith. History Gosford High School, operated by the New South Wales Department of Education, was established in 1928, the first secondary school in the Central Coast region, and became a selective hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorokan, New South Wales
Gorokan is a List of Central Coast suburbs, suburb of the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area. The word "Gorokan" means "The Morning Dawn" from the language of the Awabakal (an Aboriginal tribe). There are two schools in the area, Gorokan Public School and Gorokan High School. Electricity was first brought to the area as a part of a £42,000 programme for electricity reticulation under the Brisbane Water County Council. Located on the shores of Lake Tuggerah, Gorokan has long been a holiday destination with the Quoy family first buying land in the area in 1923 where they built and rented a series of holiday homes. Other families such as the Gedlings (by way of Gordon and Margaret Gedling) built a holiday house on the Gorokan waterfront in 1956. References 2. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 – 1954) Thursday 25 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorokan High School
Gorokan High School is a government-funded co-educational dual modality partially academically selective and comprehensive secondary day school, located in Lake Haven, in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1976, the school enrolled approximately 950 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 16 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and seven percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Matthew Boake. Overview The school draws its name from the nearby settlement of ; and was housed in temporary buildings in Dudley Street on the site of what was to later become Gorokan Public School in 1977. It moved to its current location in Goobarabah Avenue in 1977. Its inaugural principal was Gwen Foley, who was the first female high school principal on the NSW Central Coast. She retired in December 1982. Foley chose the inaugural school motto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girraween, New South Wales
Girraween is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Girraween is located 30 km west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Cumberland Council and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. History Girraween is an Aboriginal word meaning ''place of flowers''. It was first inhabited by the Darug people. This area was part of the estate of D'Arcy Wentworth, who was honoured in the naming of the nearby suburb of Wentworthville.''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia , page 108 Demographics At the 2016 census, in Girraween. Less than half (37.9%) of people were born in Australia, with the top other countries of birth being India 26.9%, Sri Lanka 10.6%, Malta 2.5%, China 2.2% and Philippines 1.4%. In Girraween, 70.0% of people spoke a language other than English at home. The other most common languages spoken were Tamil 18.3%, Gujarati 9.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girraween High School
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Petersham, New South Wales
Petersham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Petersham is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of Inner West Council. Petersham is known for its extensive Portugal, Portuguese commercial offerings, with many Portuguese businesses and restaurants, although only 156 (1.9%) of the population was actually born in Portugal. Petersham is bordered by the suburbs of Leichhardt, New South Wales, Leichhardt to the north, Stanmore, New South Wales, Stanmore to the east, Marrickville, New South Wales, Marrickville to the south and Lewisham, New South Wales, Lewisham to the west. Taverner's Hill, named after Fred Taverner, is a locality in the western part of the suburb. History Major Francis Grose (Lieutenant-Governor), Francis Grose sent workmen to the area in 1793 to clear the bush and plant corn and wheat. He named the area Peters-Ham or P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
