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Kogarah High School is a comprehensive co-educational school located in

, New South Wales, Australia.

Sport houses

Kogarah High School has a long history of student achievement both academically and on the sporting field. The school's sport houses are named after four sporting greats who are former students; Rosewall, Crampton, O'Neill and Chapman.

History

1891: A New Building In 1876 a new public school was built as well as a teachers’ residence on a site behind the present high school in Regent Street. The expansion of the railway line to Kogarah and beyond, early in the 1880s was a great influence on Kogarah High School as it enabled easy travel for students from neighbouring suburbs and enrolments subsequently increased. 1891 saw the construction of the older half of the present senior school. Here is an architect's description of the building contained in Department of Education records: "The building is of Jacobean type, built of buff bricks, with dark brick and stone dressings and roofed with red Marseilles tiles." During this era, the school functioned as an infants and primary school, but by 1892, it has been redesigned as a "Superior School", meaning that some of its students were doing secondary work. The school continued to expand in the first decade of the 20th century, reaching an enrolment of 1,500 in 1909. Around this time, the school functioned as 3 separate departments. There was an infants and primary section, a Girls Intermediate High School section from 1913 and a Boys Intermediate High School section formed in 1920. Part of the girls' section broke away to form St George Girls High School in 1916 but girls continued to be taught by a section that became known as the Kogarah Central Domestic Science School. The infants' section moved away to the site of the present Kogarah Public School in 1954 and the primary section soon joined them. In 1959 the Home Science School became a full High School and the Boys' school received this status in 1959. This meant that they both were teaching students up to the level of the Leaving Certificate. In 1963, both schools combined to form Kogarah High School as the co-educational school it is today.Clarke, Joyce. Kogarah High School: Our Struggle for Quality Education. Cambell, A.C.T.: DocMatrix, 2002. Print.

Notable alumni

* Gary Chapman – Olympic and Commonwealth Games swimming medallist *

Bill Crabtree William Frederick Farrar Crabtree (31 May 1915 – 12 July 2001) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1953 until 1983 and represented the Labor Party. Born in the Sydney suburb of Marric ...

– MLA for Kogarah for 31 years *

Bruce Crampton Bruce Crampton (born 28 September 1935) is an Australian professional golfer. Early life Crampton was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and attended Kogarah High School from 1948 to 1950. In August 1953 he reached final of the New South Wales Am ...

– professional golfer *

Joy Cummings Joyce Anne Cummings, ( Plumbe; 23 December 1923 – 1 July 2003) was an Australian politician. She was the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, and Australia's first female Lord Mayor, from 1974 to 1976 and again from 1977 until 1984, when she retired fr ...

- Australia's first female Lord Mayor, Newcastle, 1974-1984 * Les Favell – Australian cricketer and cricket captain of South Australia * Moira Gatens - Feminist philosopher * Neville Hayes – Olympic silver medallist swimmer *

John Hewson John Robert Hewson AM (born 28 October 1946) is an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Liberal-National Coalition to defeat at the 1993 Australian federal election. Hewson wa ...

– former leader of the federal opposition (Liberal Party) *

Jeannie Little Jeanne Mitchell (11 May 19387 November 2020), professionally known as Jeanne Little, was an Australian entertainer, comedienne and television personality who won the Gold Logie award in 1977 (a dual honour that year with Don Lane winning as Be ...

– entertainer and actress *

Norman O'Neill Norman Houston O'Neill (14 March 1875 – 3 March 1934) was an English composer and conductor of Irish background who specialised largely in works for the theatre. Life O'Neill was born at 16 Young Street in Kensington, London, the youngest so ...

- Australian and Sheffield Shield cricketer *

Ken Rosewall Kenneth Robert Rosewall (born 2 November 1934) is an Australian former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player. He won a record 23 Majors in singles, including eight Grand Slam singles titles and, before the Open Era, a record ...

– Tennis player who won seven grand slams *

Abbas Saad Abbas Saad ( ar, عباس سعد; born 1 December 1967) is an Australian soccer manager and former player, who is currently managing National Premier Leagues NSW side Sydney Olympic. International career Born in Lebanon, Saad's family moved ...

- Australian international Football/Soccer player (Socceroos). 1985 Commonwealth Bank Cup Winner *

June Salter June Marie Salter AM (22 June 193215 September 2001) was an Australian actress and author prominent in theatre and television, best known for her character roles. Biography June Salter was born in Bexley, New South Wales, the youngest of six ...

– actress * John Tapp – TV sport and racing commentator *

Barrie Unsworth Barrie John Unsworth (born 16 April 1934) is a former Australian politician, representing the Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991. He served as the 36th Premier from July 1986 to March 1988. Early years Unswort ...

- Australian politician, 36th Premier of New South Wales

References

External links

Kogarah High School website
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Sport houses

History

Notable alumni

See also

References

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