Blacktown Girls High School | |
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Location | |
Australia | |
Coordinates | 33°45′42″S150°54′39″E / 33.7616°S 150.9107°E |
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Type | Government-funded single-sex academically partially selective secondary day school |
Established |
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Sister school | Blacktown Boys High School |
School district | Bungarribee |
Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
Oversight | NSW Education Standards Authority |
Principal | Maria Trimmis |
Teaching staff | 57.3 FTE (2018) [1] |
Years | 7–12 |
Gender | Girls |
Enrolment | 753 [1] (2018) |
Campus type | Suburban |
Colour(s) | Maroon and white |
Website | blacktowng-h |
Blacktown Girls High School (abbreviated as BGHS) is a government-funded single-sex academically partially selective secondary day school for girls, located in Blacktown, a suburb of western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [2]
Established in 1956 as the co-educational Blacktown High School, the school enrolled approximately 750 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom three percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 85 percent were from a language background other than English. [1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education in accordance with a curriculum developed by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority.
The school's brother school is Blacktown Boys High School.
The school was originally established in January 1956 as Blacktown High School. However, owing to a growing local population and in accordance with government policy, it was decided that the schools would be split into two single sex schools: Blacktown Boys and Blacktown Girls High Schools. Both were fully split by 1959.
The school values sporting and creative achievements. For sports, the school has 4 house groups - Oodgeroo, Chisholm, Reibey and Fraser; named after prominent women in Australian history. In 2019, the Same Simpala memorial medal was established to honour talented students in the creative and performing arts.
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