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, established = January 1955 , principal = Paul Abboud , grades = 7-12 , colours = Blue, black and white , website = , enrolment = ~900+ , enrolment_as_of = 2013 , campus type = East Hills Boys High School (abbreviated as EHBHS) known until 2011 as East Hills Boys Technology High School, is a boys school in

, a suburb in south-western Sydney,

, Australia, on Lucas Road. It is a single-sex boys'

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with students from years 7 to 12. The school was established in 1955.

School history

The school was established in 1955 and was officially opened on 26 May 1956 by the Minister for Education,

Bob Heffron Robert James Heffron (10 September 189027 July 1978), also known as Bob Heffron or R. J. Heffron, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, union organiser and Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party Premier of New So ...

. The first headmaster from 1955 to his retirement in 1963 was Michael Stephen Cannon. Heffron also officially opened the new assembly hall on 6 August 1959, with the hall subsequently named the "R. J. Heffron Hall" in his honour.

Principals

Notable alumni

Glenn Brookes Glenn Edward Brookes (born 13 August 1959) is an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing East Hills from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Liberal Party, he resigned to become an independen ...

politician; Liberal Member for East Hills, since 2011 * John Dale former president of the

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CEO of the

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and former

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executive * Wayne Holdsworthformer member of the

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former rugby league player * Corey Richardsformer member of the

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swimmer; five time Olympic champion, eleven time World Champion, four times World Swimmer of the Year, 2000

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rugby league player * Scott McKenzie – 2011/12 Late Model Racing Queensland (LMRQ) Rookie of the Year. *

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former cricketer who held the world record for most catches in Test matches from 2001 until 2009 (181) *

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former captain of

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, the most capped Test player and most prolific winning captain in history *

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Notable former staff

* Bill Collins former English teacher; film critic and historian, radio and television presenter * John Dysonformer computing and IT teacher - Australian one day and test cricketer, and current West Indian team coach *

Peter Hadfield Peter Robert Hadfield (born 21 January 1955) is an Australian Olympic athlete who competed in the decathlon. Hadfield won a total of nine Australian Championships in Athletics between 1976 and 1985. He didn't compete in the National Cha ...

former sportsmaster – Australian Olympic and Commonwealth decathlon athlete *

Tracey Menzies Tracey Menzies is an Australian swimming coach, most known for coaching five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe, Australia's most successful Olympian, from late 2002 until his retirement in 2006. She was an assistant of Doug Frost, Thorpe's form ...

former art and physical education teacher – swimming coach, most known for coaching Ian Thorpe, and at the

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