Maroubra Bay High School

Maroubra Bay High School is a closed high school in the south-eastern Sydney suburb of Maroubra. The school opened in 1955 as a junior boys school, and closed in 1990. The closed site was briefly used as a location site for the television series Heartbreak High.[2][3] The former school site, adjacent to Maroubra Bay Public School, has now been redeveloped into town houses.

Maroubra Bay High School
Location
Maroubra
,
New South Wales

Australia
Information
TypePublic, secondary, co-educational, day school
MottoLatin: Nil Sine Labore
(Nothing Without Labour)
EstablishedJanuary 1955[1]
StatusClosed
ClosedDecember 1990
PrincipalM. J. Carew B.A. Dip.Ed. (1955–1956, 1963–)
Arthur James (1956–1963)
Grades7–12
CampusMalabar Road

The school was originally opened as South Sydney Boys Junior High School but was upgraded to be South Sydney Boys High School in 1957. A further decision to make the school co-educational and transfer the school name to the Junior Technical High School also in Maroubra led to the name change to Maroubra Bay High School from January 1959.[4]

The future professional golfer Vic Bennetts attended the school in the 1950s.[5][6]

See also

References
  1. "Maroubra Bay High - Cumberland". History of New South Wales government schools. NSW Department of Education. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  2. Backstage. Roache, C. Heartbreak High website, accessed 20 January 2010.
  3. Jagielski, Jenifer (20 September 2014). "HEARTBREAK HIGH (1994-99) - CHANNEL 10 AND ABC". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  4. "South Sydney Boys' Junior High School (1) (1955-1956) South Sydney Boys' High School (1) (1957- 1958) Maroubra Bay High School 1959 - 1990". Agency Records. NSW State Archives and Records. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  5. "14 May 1959, Page 13 - The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  6. "16 May 1959, Page 17 - The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 19 April 2022.

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