Asquith Girls High School

School in Australia

Asquith Girls High School

Location

Stokes Avenue, Asquith, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	33°41′27.14″S 151°6′46.94″E / 33.6908722°S 151.1130389°E / -33.6908722; 151.1130389
Information
Type	Government-funded comprehensive single-sex secondary day school
Motto	Learn to live
Established	January 1947; 78 years ago (1947-01) (as Hornsby Home Science School) 1 January 1959; 66 years ago (1959-01-01) (as Asquith Girls High School)
Sister school	Asquith Boys High School
School district	Hornsby
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Oversight	NSW Education Standards Authority
Principal	Elizabeth Amvrazis
Teaching staff	45.6 FTE (2018)
Years	7–12
Gender	Girls
Enrolment	597 (2023)
Campus	Suburban
Colour(s)	Green and white
Website	asquithgir-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

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.

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.

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

Principals

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

Ordinal	Officeholder	Term start	Term end	Time in office
−	Alma Hamilton
−	Kristine Needham		2006
−	Jane Ferris	2006	2013	6–7 years
−	Elizabeth Amvrazis	2013	incumbent	11–12 years

Notable alumnae

Micky Green – pop singer

References

"Asquith Girls High – Cumberland". History of New South Wales government schools. NSW Department of Education. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ "Asquith Girls High School, Asquith, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
"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.
"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.
"Asquith Girls' High School, 1962". Hornsby Shire Recollects. Hornsby Shire Council. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
"THE MAGAZINE OF THE FORT STREET GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL" (PDF). Fort Street Girls High School. 1965. p. 3. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
"Asquith Girls High School". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 June 2002. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

External links

Official website
NSW Department of Education School Finder – Asquith Girls High School
Asquith Girls High School P&C website

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