Hunter River High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located adjacent to the Hunter River, in Heatherbrae, south of Raymond Terrace, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Coordinates | 32°46′54″S 151°43′58″E / 32.7816°S 151.7328°E |
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Former name | Raymond Terrace High School |
Type | Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school |
Motto | French: Essayez (Test yourself) |
Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
Principal | Deb Dibley |
Teaching staff | 64.7 FTE (2018)[1] |
Years | 7–12 |
Enrolment | 816[1] (2018) |
Campus | Suburban |
Colour(s) | Blue, white and green |
Slogan | Quality Relationships – Quality Learning |
Website | hunterriv-h |
Established as Raymond Terrace High School,[2] the school enrolled approximately 800 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 19 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and four percent were from a language background other than English.[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Deb Dibley.
The school's traditional motto appears on the school's crest and is in French: Essayez, translated as "Test yourself". The school's second motto, or slogan, is "Quality Relationships – Quality Learning".[3]
See also
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edit- ^ a b c "Hunter River High School, Heatherbrae, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ Price, John (4 May 2005). Hunter River High School (Speech). Hansard. Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, Sydney: Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ "About our school". Hunter River High School. New South Wales Department of Education. n.d. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
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