Blacktown Boys High School (BBHS) is a government-funded single-sex academically partially selective secondary day school for boys, located in Blacktown, a western Sydney suburb of New South Wales, Australia.
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Blacktown_High_School.jpg) Blacktown Boys High School, pictured in 2014 | |
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| Coordinates | 33°45′43″S 150°54′43″E / 33.76194°S 150.91194°E |
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| Type | Government-funded single-sex academically partially selective secondary day school |
| Motto | Learn to live |
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| Sister school | Blacktown Girls High School |
| School district | Bungarribee; Metropolitan North |
| Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
| Oversight | NSW Education Standards Authority |
| Principal | David Calleja |
| Teaching staff | 52 FTE (2022)[2] |
| Years | 7–12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrolment | 822[2] (2022) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Gold and maroon |
| Website | blacktownb-h |
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Established in 1956 as Blacktown High School, the school enrolled approximately 822 students in 2022, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 0.02 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 89 percent spoke English as a second or foreign language.[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 David Calleja.
Its sister school is Blacktown Girls High School which is located adjacent to the high school.
History
editThe school was originally established in January 1956 as the co-educational Blacktown High School.[1] However, owing to a growing local population and in accordance with government policy, it was decided that the schools would be split into two single-sex schools: Blacktown Boys High School, and Blacktown Girls High School. Both were fully split by 1959. Blacktown Boys was officially opened on 17 October 1959 by the Deputy Premier and Minister of Education, Bob Heffron.
A school cadet unit was formed in 1961, and disbanded in the 1970s as multiple fights took place.
The school became a partially selective school in 2010.[4]
Notable alumni
edit- Bob Brown – former politician and activist; former Leader of the Australian Greens; former Australian Senator; 1961 school captain
- George Ilich – former Broadcaster Radio 2CH 1170, 1988 to 2014
- Charles Casuscelli – politician; former Liberal Party Member for Strathfield (2011–2015); Chair of the NSW Parliament's Transport and Infrastructure Committee[5]
- Graham Joseph Hill – theologian[6][7]
- Mert Ney – perpetrator of the 2019 Sydney CBD stabbings.[8]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b "Blacktown Boys High". Government Schools of New South Wales from 1848. NSW Education and Communities. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Blacktown Boys High School, Blacktown, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ^ "Blacktown Boys High School". School Locator. NSW Public Schools. Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ^ "Home page". Blacktown Boys High School. NSW Department of Education. n.d. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ^ "Mr Charles CASUSCELLI, RFD (1956–)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Graham Joseph Hill | Staff directory". staff.divinity.edu.au. Archived from the original on 11 March 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ Beach, Kylie (18 November 2020). "Graham Hill named new principal at Stirling Theological College – Eternity News". eternitynews.com.au. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ "'Not many friends': Ex-classmates open up about Sydney stabbing suspect". 13 August 2019.