Coffs Harbour High School

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Coffs Harbour High School
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Coffs Harbour High School

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Coordinates 30°18′20″S153°08′09″E / 30.3055°S 153.1358°E / -30.3055; 153.1358
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Type Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
Motto Latin: Lumen ex tenebris
(Light out of darkness[ citation needed ])
Established1938;86 years ago (1938)
School districtCoffs Harbour; Regional North
Educational authority NSW Department of Education
PrincipalPeter South [1]
Teaching staff71 FTE (2018) [2]
Years 712
Enrolment1,004 [2]  (2018)
Campus type Regional
Colour(s)Navy, white, and yellow    
Website coffsharb-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
Coffs Harbour High School

Coffs Harbour High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Coffs Harbour, in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The aboriginal country the school is built on is Gumbaynggirr Country.

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Established in 1938, the school enrolled approximately 1,000 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, including nine percent of students who identified as Indigenous Australians and fifteen percent who were from a language background other than English. [2] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Peter South. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "Annual Report 2018" (PDF). Coffs Harbour High School. New South Wales Department of Education. 2 May 2019. p. 2. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Coffs Harbour High School, Coffs Harbour, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. "Dr Robert (Bob) Brown, MBBS" (PDF). Coffs Harbour High School. n.d. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  4. "Former Coffs Harbour High Student Becomes New WA Premier". Triple M. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2020.