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{{Use Australian English|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox school
|name           = Nowra High School
|logo           = 
|image          = Nowra High School (2).jpg
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|caption        = Entrance to the school, pictured in 2018
|motto          = Wisdom through knowledge
|established    = {{start date and age|1956}}
|type           = [[Education in Australia#Government schools|Government-funded]] [[Mixed-sex school|co-educational]] [[Comprehensive school|comprehensive]] [[secondary school|secondary]] [[day school]]
|educational_authority = [[Department of Education (New South Wales)|New South Wales Department of Education]]
|district    = South Coast
|location    = {{NSWcity|Nowra}}, [[New South Wales]]
|country     = Australia 
|campus      = [[Regional]]
|enrolment   = 916<ref name=myschool>{{cite web |url=https://www.myschool.edu.au/school/42911 |title=Nowra High School, Nowra, NSW: School profile |work=My School |publisher=[[Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority]] |date=2019 |access-date=2 August 2019 }}</ref>
|enrolment_as_of = 2018
|teaching_staff = 69.6 [[Full-time equivalent|FTE]] (2018)<ref name=myschool/>
|grades       = [[Year 7|7]]–[[Year 12|12]]
|grades_label = Years
|principal      = Jodie Wellington
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|website        = {{URL|nowra-h.schools.nsw.gov.au}}
|footnotes = <ref name="AR2018">{{cite web |url=https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/doe-nsw-schools/annual-report/2018/8201/2018_Nowra_High_School_Annual_Report.pdf |title=Annual Report 2018 |work=Nowra High School |publisher=[[Department of Education (New South Wales)|New South Wales Department of Education]] |date=11 June 2019 |access-date=12 July 2019  }}</ref>
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'''Nowra High School''' is a [[Education in Australia#Government schools|government-funded]] [[Mixed-sex school|co-educational]] [[Comprehensive school|comprehensive]] [[secondary school|secondary]] [[day school]], located in {{NSWcity|Nowra}}, in the [[South Coast (New South Wales)|South Coast]] region of [[New South Wales]], Australia.

Established in 1956, the school enrolled approximately 910 students in 2018, from [[Year 7]] to [[Year 12]], of whom eleven percent identified as [[Indigenous Australians]] and seven percent were from a [[English as a second or foreign language|language background other than English]].<ref name=myschool/> The school is operated by the [[Department of Education (New South Wales)|NSW Department of Education]]; the [[Principal (school)|acting principal]] is Jodie Wellington.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our staff – Nowra High School |url=https://nowra-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/our-staff.html |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=nowra-h.schools.nsw.gov.au}}</ref> The school motto is "Wisdom Through Knowledge".

== Overview ==
On 17 May 2007 the [[Governor-General of Australia|Governor-General]] hosted a meeting in the school with [[Indigenous Australians|indigenous]] students from the city's high schools.<ref>[http://www.gg.gov.au/governorgeneral/gallery.php?action=list&year=2007&month=5 "Gallery – May 2007"], [[Governor-General of Australia|Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia]]</ref>

==Notable alumni==
*  [[Anna Bligh]] {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}}{{spaced endash}}a former politician and [[Premiers of Queensland|Premier of Queensland]] who spent the last six months of her schooling at Nowra High<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/about/bio.aspx|title=Official biography of Premier Anna Bligh|publisher=Government of Queensland|access-date=22 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009184906/http://www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/about/bio.aspx|archive-date=9 October 2008}}</ref>
* [[Fiona Phillips (politician)|Fiona Phillips]] – federal MP<ref name=firstspeech>{{cite news|url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2Fa84cce14-e82b-4b9f-8035-b3f8af36cbdf%2F0011%22|title=First speech|date=30 July 2019|access-date=4 May 2021|publisher=Parliament of Australia|work=Hansard}}</ref>
* [[Karen Phillips]]- Olympic swimmer

===Notable former staff===
* [[Brian McGowan (Australian politician)|Brian McGowan]]{{spaced endash}}a teacher during the 1960s; and a former member of the NSW Legislative Assembly<ref>[http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/HansArt.nsf/V3Key/LA19940310010 Obituary for Brian McGowan at Partiment.nsw.gov] accessed 14 November 2007</ref>

== See also ==
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* [[List of government schools in New South Wales: G–P]]
* [[List of schools in Illawarra and the South East]]
* [[Education in Australia]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{official website|https://nowra-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/}}

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{{Illawarra region topics}}

[[Category:Public high schools in New South Wales]]
[[Category:1956 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1956]]
[[Category:Nowra]]


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