Asquith Girls High School
School in Australia
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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.
- January 1947
(as Hornsby Home Science School) - 1 January 1959
(as Asquith Girls High School)[1]
| Asquith Girls High School | |
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| Location | |
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Stokes Avenue, Asquith, New South Wales Australia | |
| Coordinates | 33°41′27.14″S 151°6′46.94″E |
| Information | |
| Type | Government-funded comprehensive single-sex secondary day school |
| Motto | Learn to live |
| Established |
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| 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)[2] |
| Years | 7–12 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrolment | 597 (2023[2]) |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colours | Green and white |
| Website | asquithgir-h |
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.[2] 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.[3] Asquith Girls High School officially commenced operation from 1 January 1959.[4][5]
Principals
Notable alumnae
- Micky Green – pop singer
