Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts
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Established in 1916, the school enrolled approximately 1,190 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom five percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 25 per cent were from a language background other than English.[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education.
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History
The school was established in 1916 in Smith Street Wollongong as Wollongong Home Science School, for girls only. At the time it was the only high school between Sydney and the Victorian border.[2]
Notable alumni
- Natalie BassingthwaighteTemplate:Spaced endashsinger and actress[3]
- Ashley FisherTemplate:Spaced endashformer tennis player[4]
- Nicholas Cowdery Template:Post-nominalsTemplate:Spaced endashformer New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions
- Mark KerryTemplate:Spaced endashOlympic gold medalist in swimming[3]
- Peter MacKinnon and Peter Raengel, bandmates in the Sunday Painters[5]
- Stephen MartinTemplate:Spaced endashformer politician
- Evelyn OwenTemplate:Spaced endash Inventor
- Mary PuckeyTemplate:Spaced endashfirst female superintendent of an Australian hospital
- Mary FowlerTemplate:Spaced endashprofessional footballer
- DPR IanTemplate:Spaced endashKorean-Australian singer, rapper and director
See also
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- List of government schools in New South Wales: Q–Z
- List of selective high schools in New South Wales
References
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- Creative and performing arts high schools in New South Wales
- Schools in Wollongong
- Public high schools in New South Wales
- Fairy Meadow, New South Wales