Illawarra Sports High School

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Illawarra Sports High School
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Illawarra Sports High School
Berkeley, New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates 34°28′49″S150°51′13″E / 34.4803322°S 150.8536685°E / -34.4803322; 150.8536685
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Former nameBerkeley High School (1956-1998)
Type Government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school
Motto Latin: Integer vitae
(Blameless in Life)
Established1956;68 years ago (1956)
(as Berkeley High School)
School districtIllawarra North; Regional South
Educational authority New South Wales Department of Education
Specialist Sports school
PrincipalGary Hampton
Teaching staff64.3 FTE (2018) [1]
Years 7–12
Enrolment737 [1]  (2018)
Campus type Suburban
Colour(s)Navy, light blue, white    
AffiliationNSW Sport High School Association
Website illawaspor-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
Illawarra Sports High School

Illawarra Sports High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Berkeley, a southern suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Established in 1956 as the Berkeley High School, the school changed its name in 1998 in line with becoming a sports-oriented school. The Illawarra Sports High School caters for approximately 740 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 13 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 27 percent were from a language background other than English. [1] The school draws the majority of its students from the southern Wollongong area; with an increasing number of students from the larger Illawarra area who access its specialist sports programs. [2] The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is Gary Hampton.

Illawarra Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association. [3]

Sports offered

The Illawarra Sports High School operates a talented sports development program across the following sports: basketball, boxing, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, soccer (affiliated with the Sydney FC [4] [5] ), surfing, [6] touch football, [7] and wrestling.

Notable alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Illawarra Sports High School, Berkeley, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "About our school". Illawarra Sports High School. New South Wales Department of Education. n.d. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "High Performance Schools". School programs. Cricket NSW. 2019. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  4. ↑ Barrow, Tim (18 October 2017). "Sydney FC establish development pathway at Illawarra Sports High". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Illawarra Sports High School". Sydney FC Academy Football Schools. Sydney FC. n.d. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  6. ↑ Latifi, Agron (22 February 2017). "Illawarra Sports HS wins prestigious surfing challenge". The Advertiser Lake Times. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "Talented Sports Development Program: Sports Offered". Illawarra Sports High School. New South Wales Department of Education. n.d. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  8. ↑ Caitlin Foord Sydney FC Profile Archived 20 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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