Grafton High School (New South Wales)

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Grafton High School (abbreviated as GHS) is government-funded co-educational dual modality partially academically selective and comprehensive secondary day school, located in Grafton, in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.

MottoLatin: Enitere ad finem
(Strive to the end)
Established1912; 114 years ago (1912)
School district
Rural North[1]
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Grafton High School
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Australia
29°40′58″S 152°55′59″E
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TypeGovernment-funded co-educational dual modality partially academically selective and comprehensive secondary day school
MottoLatin: Enitere ad finem
(Strive to the end)
Established1912; 114 years ago (1912)
School district
Rural North[1]
Educational authority
NSW Department of Education
Principal
Scott Dinham[2]
Teaching staff
72.2 FTE (2018)[3]
Years712
Enrolment905[3] (2018)
Campus type
Regional
ColoursNavy and white   
Websitegrafton-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
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Established in 1912, the school enrolled approximately 900 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 15 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and four percent were from a language background other than English.[3] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Scott Dinham.[2]

History

Grafton High basketball team, pictured in 1926

Grafton High School was established on 1 January 1912 and opened on 1 July of that year as a formal education system was being established in New South Wales. A new building opened on 17 May 1915.[4]

Since at least the 1960s, but according to an attached note since 1915, the school has been home to the head of an Egyptian mummy.[5]

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