Nirimba Fields is a suburb of Sydney in the state of

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, Australia. Nirimba Fields is in north-west Sydney in the

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Blacktown Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Blacktown is located west of the Sydney central business district. It is one of the most multicultural places within Grea ...

. ''Nirimba'' is a

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word meaning

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History

Nirimba Fields was gazetted on 6 November 2020. A large portion of the suburb was previously part of Schofields, with a small portion in the south previously part of

Quakers Hill Quakers Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is westnorth-west (WNW) of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown. Quakers Hill is part of the Greater Wes ...

.New Blacktown City suburbs officially named
The National Tribune 2 November 2020 Nirimba Fields was the site of the former

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Schofields Aerodrome. The Nirimba Education Precinct, including

Wyndham College Wyndham College is a public senior secondary school located at Nirimba Fields, New South Wales, Nirimba Fields, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1999, its intake of students come from three surrounding high schools: Quakers Hill High ...

is located south of the Schofields Aerodrome site. The precinct was redeveloped in 1995 from the former

HMAS Nirimba HMAS ''Nirimba'' is a former Royal Australian Navy (RAN) training base located at the former RAAF Station Schofields at Nirimba Fields, previously Schofields, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. History ''Nirimba'' is a Darug word meanin ...

base, which was commissioned by the

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in 1953 and used until 1994.

Education

The Nirimba Education Precinct is located within the suburb, and comprises

Western Sydney University Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, Australia. The university in its current form was founded in 1989 as a federated network ...

's The College,

, Nirimba

TAFE NSW TAFE NSW is an Australian vocational education and training provider. Annually, the network trains over 500,000 students in campus, workplace, online, or distance education methods of education. It was established as an independent statutory bod ...

St John Paul II Catholic College The St John Paul II Catholic College is a dual schoolcampus independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, with campuses located in Nirimba Fields and Schofields, in the City of Blacktown in the western suburbs of Sydney, Ne ...

and

. As of November 2020, there are 8362 students, 1255 staff and 48 residents currently studying, working or living within the precinct, a total of 9665 people.

References

External links

Map of Nirimba Fields
(November 2020) – Blacktown City Council Suburbs of Sydney City of Blacktown {{Sydney-geo-stub