Woolooware High is a comprehensive secondary school in the Sutherland Shire,

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. It was established in 1967 and took its first class in January 1968. Woolooware High is known for participation and success in

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. The school has had success in the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge. Several students from WHS competed in and won the Science and Engineering Challenge, held at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. Woolooware High became a participant in the White Ribbon program in 2014 and was officially accredited as a "White Ribbon" school in 2016. On 29 January 2016, Woolooware High was one of a number of schools across New South Wales which were evacuated following threatening phone calls that students were in danger. The calls turned out to be a hoax.

Alumni

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. * Simon Pavey, motorcycle racer who competed in the Dakar Rally and co-star of '' Race to Dakar''. *

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, former governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. *

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* {{Authority control Sutherland Shire Public high schools in Sydney 1967 establishments in Australia Educational institutions established in 1967