Albury High School

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Albury High School
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Albury High School, pictured in 2007
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Albury High School
Kiewa Street, Albury, New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates 36°04′22″S146°54′57″E / 36.072863°S 146.915874°E / -36.072863; 146.915874
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Type Government-operated comprehensive secondary school
Motto Latin: Ad Astra Per Aspera
(To the stars through difficult and challenging ways [1] )
Established1920;104 years ago (1920)
School districtAlbury; Rural South and West
Educational authority NSW Department of Education
PrincipalDarryl Ward [2]
Years 7–12
Enrolment974 [3]  (2018)
Color(s)Red, black and white    
YearbookSouthern Cross
Website albury-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
Albury High School

Albury High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school located in Albury, a city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Established in 1920, the school enrolled approximately 1,000 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom four percent identified as Indigenous Australians and ten percent were from a language background other than English. [3] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Darryl Ward. [2]

History

Albury High School was established in 1920 and occupied an old hospital building in Thurgoona Street, Albury. Under the guidance of the first headmaster, J. G. Monaghan, the school quickly grew and gained more than 200 pupils. This significantly dropped in the mid-1920s, however after the establishment of a parents and citizens association that was treated as a separate body, the school began to grow once more. The school moved into its current location in Kiewa Street on 28 March 1928, after the building of a permanent site to the tune of $50,000. The enrolment at the class slowly grew, with only a minor hitch when the school was classified as a Third Class High School. Eventually, the school gained its classification as a First Class High School and the numbers continued to grow. The addition of further buildings in the 1970s as well as the decision to include the Principal's residence as a teaching space helped aid the increasing enrolment.

In 2014, a fire destroyed the administration office. [4]

Notable alumni

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References

  1. ↑ "About our school". Albury High School. NSW Department of Education . Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Annual Report 2018" (PDF). Albury High School. New South Wales Department of Education. 15 May 2019. p. 2. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Albury High School, Albury, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  4. ↑ Dean, Sarah (24 July 2014). "Albury High School fire leaves big repair bill". The Border Mail . Albury. Retrieved 29 January 2016.(subscription required)
  5. ↑ Pearce, Suzannah (ed.). "BOYD Anne Elizabeth". Who's Who in Australia Live!. North Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd.


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