Blacktown Girls High School

Blacktown Girls High School
Blacktown Girls High School
Location
	Blacktown, New South Wales; Australia
Coordinates	33°45′42″S 150°54′39″E / 33.7616°S 150.9107°E
Information
Type	Government-funded single-sex academically partially selective secondary day school
Established	January 1956; 68 years ago; (as Blacktown High School;; co-educational); January 1959; 65 years ago; (as Blacktown Girls High School);
Sister school	Blacktown Boys High School
School district	Bungarribee
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Oversight	NSW Education Standards Authority
Principal	Maria Trimmis
Teaching staff	57.3 FTE (2018)
Years	7–12
Gender	Girls
Enrolment	753 (2018)
Campus type	Suburban
Colour(s)	Maroon and white
Website	blacktowng-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

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 values sporting and creative achievements. For sports, the school has 4 house groups - Oodgeroo, Chisholm, Reibey and Fraser; named after prominent women in Australian history. In 2019, the Same Simpala memorial medal was established to honour talented students in the creative and performing arts.

Notable alumni

Nikita Ridgeway – tattoo artist and graphic designer
Toni Collette – Actress

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

[myschool-1] "Blacktown Girls High School, Blacktown, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.

[2] New South Wales Department of Education Archived 12 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine – Blacktown Girls High School.

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v t e Selective and specialist high schools of New South Wales, Australia
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Notable alumni

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