Blacktown Boys High School

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.

Blacktown Boys High School
Blacktown Boys High School, pictured in 2014
Location
Blacktown Boys High School
Blacktown Boys High School
Blacktown Boys High School (New South Wales)
Blacktown Boys High School
Blacktown Boys High School (Australia)
Blacktown, Western Sydney, New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates33°46′S 150°54′E
Information
TypeGovernment-funded single-sex academically partially selective secondary day school
MottoLearn to live
Established
  • January 1956 (1956-01)
    (as Blacktown High School;
    co-educational)
  • January 1959 (1959-01)
    (as Blacktown Boys High School)[1]
Sister schoolBlacktown Girls High School
School districtBungarribee; Metropolitan North
Educational authorityNew South Wales Department of Education
OversightNSW Education Standards Authority
PrincipalShaun Addy
Teaching staff47.0 FTE (2018)[2]
Years7-12
GenderBoys
Enrolment577[2] (2018)
Campus typeSuburban
Colour(s)Gold and maroon         
Websiteblacktownb-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
[3]

Established in 1956 as Blacktown High School, the school enrolled approximately 580 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom one percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 87 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 Shaun Addy.

Its sister school is Blacktown Girls High School.

History

The 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 and Blacktown Girls High Schools. 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.

The school became a partially selective school in 2010.[4]

Notable alumni

See also

References
  1. "Blacktown Boys High". Government Schools of New South Wales from 1848. NSW Education and Communities. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  2. "Blacktown Boys High School, Blacktown, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  3. "Blacktown Boys High School". School Locator. NSW Public Schools. Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  4. "Home page". Blacktown Boys High School. NSW Department of Education. n.d. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
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