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Pendle Hill High School is a comprehensive,
co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...
high school with over 300 students located in
Pendle Hill Pendle Hill is in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Brierfield, Clitheroe and Padiham. Its summit is above mean sea level. It gives its name to the Borough of Pendle. It is an isolated hill in the P ...
, a suburb in the west of Sydney, Australia.


School profile

The school is set in a residential area that is slowly undergoing renewal with increasing medium-density development, particularly around
Pendle Hill railway station Pendle Hill railway station is located on the Main Western line, serving the Sydney suburb of Pendle Hill. It is served by Sydney Trains Sydney Trains is the operator of the suburban passenger rail network serving the city of Sydney, New ...
and
Wentworthville railway station Wentworthville railway station is located on the Main Western line, serving the Sydney suburb of Wentworthville. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 Western and T5 Cumberland line services. History Wentworthville station opened in 1883 as TR S ...
. The school is located close to Pendle Hill station. There is increasing student cultural diversity with 62% of students coming from non-English speaking backgrounds.


Notable alumni

* John Larkinauthor


See also

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List of government schools in New South Wales {{Use Australian English, date=June 2020 The New South Wales Department of Education is a department of the Government of New South Wales. In addition to other responsibilities, it operates primary and secondary school A secondary school des ...
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Education in Australia Education in Australia encompasses the sectors of early childhood education (preschool) and primary education (primary schools), followed by secondary education (high schools), and finally tertiary education, which includes higher education (un ...


References


External links


Pendle Hill High School website
{{Public high schools in Sydney, state=collapsed Educational institutions established in 1965 Public high schools in Sydney 1965 establishments in Australia