Narara Valley High School

Narara Valley High School
Narara Valley High School
Location
	Narara, Central Coast, New South Wales ; Australia
Coordinates	33°23′51″S151°20′03″E / 33.397383°S 151.334289°E
Information
Type	Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
Motto	Learning For the Future
Established	1995
School district	Central Coast; Regional North
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Principal	Andrew Skehan
Teaching staff	65.4 FTE (2020)
Years	7–12
Gender	Mixed
Age range	12 to 18
Enrollment	762 (2022)
Student to teacher ratio	11.9
Campus type	Suburban
Colour(s)	Red and Silver
Website	nararavaly-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Last updated October 05, 2023

Narara Valley High School (abbreviated as NVHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Narara, in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

The school caters for approximately 762 students in 2022, from year 7 to year 12, of whom eleven percent identified as Indigenous Australians and ten percent were from a language background other than English.^[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; and the current principal is Andrew Skehan.

Extracurricular amd co-curricular

Music

The school runs several music programs, including a selective creative and performing arts program and a concert band that frequently plays music at fund-raising events for the school and charity. Music classes are mandatory for all students enrolled in years 7 and 8, and the subject may be continued as an elective if a student wishes.^[2]^[3]

Academic acceleration program

The school runs an academic acceleration program for highly engaged students who are invited to join a modified class that aims to complete the HSC a year earlier than the cohort they initially joined with.^[4]

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References

1 2 3 "Narara Valley High School, Narara, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
↑ "Band". Narara Valley High School. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
↑ "Performing Arts Gifted & Talented". Narara Valley High School. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
↑ "Student Targeted Enrichment Program (formerly Accelerated Learning Program)". Narara Valley High School. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2018.

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[myschool-1] 1 2 3 "Narara Valley High School, Narara, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

[2] "Band". Narara Valley High School. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

[3] "Performing Arts Gifted & Talented". Narara Valley High School. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

[4] "Student Targeted Enrichment Program (formerly Accelerated Learning Program)". Narara Valley High School. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2018.

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