Fairfield High School
Location
The Horsley Drive, Fairfield, New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates33°51′54″S 150°57′29″E / 33.8649°S 150.9580°E / -33.8649; 150.9580
Information
TypeGovernment-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
MottoTo Live is to Learn
Established1955 (1955)
School districtFairfield
Educational authorityNew South Wales Department of Education
YearsYear 7–12
Enrolment1,099
Colour(s)Maroon and blue   
Websitefairfield-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Fairfield High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Fairfield, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1955 through the merge of two adjacent single-sex high schools: Fairfield Boys High School and Fairfield Girls High School, the school caters for approximately 1,100 students from Year 7 to Year 12. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education.

Overview

Fairfield High School is a comprehensive local high school located in the heart of the City of Fairfield. Situated in the south western suburbs of Sydney, the school is located on the fringe of the Fairfield Central business district along The Horsley Drive. On the opposite side of the road is the Fairfield Public School and many students graduate from the public school into the high school.

There is a large footbridge (Eva Wesley Stone Pedestrian Bridge) over the Horsley Drive which allows safe access over the road. The $2 million bridge was opened on March 2002 and was named after Eva Wesley Stone, a centenarian Fairfield resident who attended Fairfield Public School and had died in 2001 at the age of 106.[1]

Fairfield High School offers a comprehensive education in a coeducational setting following the NSW curriculum. It contains an Intensive English Centre which caters for newly arrived students from overseas. The school provides for the needs of these students on entry into the Australian high school setting.

Fairfield is one of the most densely populated suburbs in Sydney containing residents from all over the world. The community is one of the most multicultural communities in Sydney.[2]

Campus

The Fairfield High School building is also used for adult education classes through MacArthur Community College.

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ FAIRFIELD TOWN CENTRE - EVA WESLEY STONE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Parliament of New South Wales. 14 March 2002. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "Fairfield City Council". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2019.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.