Kincumber High School is a
government-funded co-educational
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comprehensive secondary day school
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, located in
Kincumber
Kincumber is a south-eastern suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, nested between the Kincumba Mountain Reserve and the Kincumber Broadwater and located north of Sydney via the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway (F3). It is ...
, in the
Central Coast region of
New South Wales
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, Australia.
The school's motto is, "To tomorrow".
Established in 1990, the school enrolled approximately 930 students in 2018, from
Year 7
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to
Year 12, of whom five per cent identified as
Indigenous Australians
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and one per cent were from a
language background other than English.
[ The school is operated by the ]NSW Department of Education
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; the principal is Brent Walker.
See also
* List of government schools in New South Wales
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* Education in Australia
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References
External links
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NSW Department of Education and Training: Kincumber High School
NSW Schools website
Educational institutions established in 1990
1990 establishments in Australia
Public high schools in New South Wales
Central Coast (New South Wales)
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