Narara Valley High School (abbreviated as NVHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Narara, in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Coordinates | 33°23′51″S 151°20′03″E / 33.397383°S 151.334289°E |
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Type | Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school |
Motto | For the Future |
Established | 1995 |
School district | Central Coast; Regional North |
Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
Principal | Andrew Skehan |
Teaching staff | 65.4 FTE (2020)[1] |
Years | 7–12 |
Gender | Mixed |
Age range | 12 to 18 |
Enrollment | 762[1] (2022) |
Student to teacher ratio | 11.9 |
Campus type | Suburban |
Colour(s) | Red and Silver |
Website | nararavaly-h |
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The school caters for approximately 762 students in 2022, from year 7 to year 12, of whom eleven percent identified as Indigenous Australians and ten percent were from a language background other than English.[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; and the current principal is Andrew Skehan.
Extracurricular and co-curricular
editMusic
editThe school runs several music programs, including a selective creative and performing arts program and a concert band that frequently plays music at fund-raising events for the school and charity. Music classes are mandatory for all students enrolled in years 7 and 8, and the subject may be continued as an elective if a student wishes.[2][3]
Academic acceleration program
editUntil 2018, the school ran an academic acceleration program for highly engaged students who were invited to join a modified class that aimed to complete the HSC a year earlier than the cohort they initially joined with.[4] This class has since been discontinued, replaced by the STEP class at the beginning of 2018.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Narara Valley High School, Narara, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ "Band". Narara Valley High School. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "Performing Arts Gifted & Talented". Narara Valley High School. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "Student Targeted Enrichment Program (formerly Accelerated Learning Program)". Narara Valley High School. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
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