Asquith Girls High School

Asquith Girls High School, (abbreviated as AGHS) is a government-funded comprehensive single-sex secondary day school for girls, located on Stokes Avenue, Asquith, an upper north shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Asquith Girls High School
Location
Stokes Avenue, Asquith, New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates33°41′27.14″S 151°6′46.94″E
Information
TypeGovernment-funded comprehensive single-sex secondary day school
MottoLearn to live
Established
  • January 1947 (1947-01)
    (as Hornsby Home Science School)
  • 1 January 1959 (1959-01-01)
    (as Asquith Girls High School)[1]
Sister schoolAsquith Boys High School
School districtHornsby
Educational authorityNew South Wales Department of Education
OversightNSW Education Standards Authority
PrincipalElizabeth Amvrazis
Teaching staff58.8 FTE (2018)[2]
Years7–12
GenderGirls
Enrolment820 (2018[2])
CampusSuburban
Colour(s)Green and white   
Websiteasquithgir-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Established in 1959 to replace the Hornsby Home Science School, the school enrolled approximately 820 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom one percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 32 percent were from a language background other than English.[2] 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 principal is Elizabeth Amvrazis.

The school's brother school is the Asquith Boys High School.

History

In February 1958, the NSW Department of Education acquired a two-hectare (five-acre) site in eastern Asquith for a new girls high school to replace the Hornsby Home Science School (established 1947) that was destroyed with other school buildings on Peats Ferry Road in a bushfire in 1957.[3] Asquith Girls High School officially commenced operation from 1 January 1959.[4][5]

Principals

The following individuals have served as principal of Asquith Girls High School:

OrdinalOfficeholderTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
−Alma Hamilton[6]
−Kristine Needham2006[7]
−Jane Ferris200620136–7 years
−Elizabeth Amvrazis2013incumbent9–10 years

Notable alumnae

See also

References
  1. "Asquith Girls High - Cumberland". History of New South Wales government schools. NSW Department of Education. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  2. "Asquith Girls High School, Asquith, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  3. "NOTIFICATION OF RESUMPTION OF LAND UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1912, AS AMENDED". Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales. No. 26. New South Wales, Australia. 7 March 1958. p. 611. Retrieved 4 May 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "NEW SECONDARY SCHOOLS". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 72. New South Wales, Australia. 25 July 1958. p. 2202. Retrieved 4 May 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Asquith Girls' High School, 1962". Hornsby Shire Recollects. Hornsby Shire Council. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  6. "THE MAGAZINE OF THE FORT STREET GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL" (PDF). Fort Street Girls High School. 1965. p. 3. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  7. "Asquith Girls High School". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 June 2002. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

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