Blacktown Girls High School
School in Australia
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.
History
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 also has 4 house groups. Oodgeroo, Chisholm, Reibey and Fraser; named after prominent women in Australian history.
Notable alumni
- Nikita Ridgeway – tattoo artist and graphic designer
- Toni Collette – Actress
See also
New South Wales portal
Schools portal
- List of government schools in New South Wales: A–F
- List of selective high schools in New South Wales
- Education in Australia
References
- ^ a b c "Blacktown Girls High School, Blacktown, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ^ New South Wales Department of Education Archived 12 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine – Blacktown Girls High School.
External links
- Official website
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Selective and specialist high schools of New South Wales, Australia
primary[note a] and high schools
- Australian Performing Arts Grammar School
- Brent Street Academy
- Campbelltown Performing Arts High School
- Conservatorium High School
- Granville South High School
- Hunter School of the Performing Arts[note a]
- Northmead Creative and Performing Arts High School
- Ku-ring-gai High School
- The McDonald College[note a]
- Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School
- Newtown High School of the Performing Arts
- Village Nation College
- Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts
- List of selective high schools in New South Wales
- Selective schools of New South Wales
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