Narara Valley High School

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Narara Valley High School
Location

Australia
Coordinates 33°23′51″S151°20′03″E / 33.397383°S 151.334289°E / -33.397383; 151.334289
Information
Type Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
MottoFor the Future
Established1995
School districtCentral Coast; Regional North
Educational authority New South Wales Department of Education
PrincipalAndrew Skehan
Teaching staff65.4 FTE (2020) [1]
Years 712
GenderMixed
Age range12 to 18
Enrollment762 [1]  (2022)
Student to teacher ratio11.9
Campus type Suburban
Colour(s) Red and Silver    
Website nararavaly-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
Narara Valley High School

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.

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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 and 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

Until 2018, the school ran an academic acceleration program for highly engaged students who were invited to join a modified class that aimed to complete the HSC a year earlier than the cohort they initially joined with. [4] This class has since been discontinued, replaced by the STEP class at the beginning of 2018.

See also

References

  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.