Asquith High School

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

Australia

33°41′27.14″S 151°6′46.94″E / 33.6908722°S 151.1130389°E / -33.6908722; 151.1130389
Information
TypeGovernment-funded comprehensive single-sex secondary day school
MottoLearn to live
Established
  • January 1947; 79 years ago (1947-01)
    (as Hornsby Home Science School)
  • 1 January 1959; 67 years ago (1959-01-01)
    (as Asquith Girls High School)
School district
Hornsby
Educational authority
New South Wales Department of Education
OversightNSW Education Standards Authority
Principal
Elizabeth Amvrazis
Teaching staff
45.6 FTE (2018)
Years7–12
GenderAll
Enrolment597 (2023)
CampusSuburban
ColoursGreen and white   
Websiteasquithgir-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Asquith High School (abbreviated as AHS and formerly known as Asquith Girls High School) is a government-funded comprehensive co-education secondary day school located on Stokes Avenue, Asquith, an upper north shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1959 to replace the Hornsby Home Science School, the school enrolled approximately 597 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom two percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 30 percent were from a language background other than English. 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.

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. Asquith Girls High School officially commenced operation from 1 January 1959.

As of 2026, the school is co-ed and has been renamed to Asquith High School. Its former sister school, Asquith Boys High School, became co-ed in the same year and was renamed to Hornsby High School.

Principals

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

OrdinalOfficeholderTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
−Alma Hamilton
−Kristine Needham2006
−Jane Ferris200620136–7 years
−Elizabeth Amvrazis2013incumbent12–13 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. 1 2 3 "Asquith Girls High School, Asquith, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  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. ↑ Ralston, Nick (30 January 2026). "New shoes, old debates and the great kindergarten gamble". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 June 2026.
  7. ↑ "THE MAGAZINE OF THE FORT STREET GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL" (PDF). Fort Street Girls High School. 1965. p. 3. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Asquith Girls High School". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 June 2002. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

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