Endeavour Sports High School

Endeavour Sports High School (abbreviated as ESHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Caringbah, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Endeavour Sports High School
Location
Endeavour Sports High School
Endeavour Sports High School
Endeavour Sports High School (New South Wales)
Endeavour Sports High School
Endeavour Sports High School (Australia)

Australia
Coordinates34°01′50″S 151°07′04″E
Information
Former nameEndeavour High School
TypeGovernment-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school
MottoHonour Bound
Established1964 (1964)
(as Endeavour High School)
School districtSutherland; Metropolitan South
Educational authorityNew South Wales Department of Education
SpecialistSports school
PrincipalJames Kozlowski
Years7-12
Enrolment~1,000[1] (2016)
CampusSuburban
Colour(s)Red and black         
AffiliationNSW Sports High Schools Association
Websiteendeavoursportshighschool.com

Established in 1964 as Endeavour High School, the school caters to approximately 1,000 students from Year 7 to Year 12. It is a selective, comprehensive co-educational school which bases its enrolment on students being proficient in a targeted sport or living in the relatively small local catchment area of the school.[2] The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is James Kozlowski.

Endeavour Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association.[3] The school's alumni include many former and current sportspeople, and Endeavour Sports High School is well regarded in its sporting development of its students.[4]

History

The school was established in 1964, and became a designated sports school in 1997.

Talented Sports Program

Sports offered at Endeavour Sports High School include athletics, Australian rules football, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cricket, dance, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, softball, swimming, soccer, and tennis.

Notable alumni

Moisés Henriques field at Endeavour Sports High School

See also

References

  1. "NSW Department of Education and Training: Endeavour Sports High School". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  2. "ESHS Enrolment". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. "High Performance Schools". School programs. Cricket NSW. 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  4. Smith, Alexandra (28 March 2016). "Where stars are made". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  5. "Endeavour Sports High School". Sydney FC Academy Football Schools. Sydney FC. n.d. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  6. Parkinson, Andrew (31 October 2016). "Young Matildas duty calls for Western Sydney Wanderers midfielder Georgia Plessas". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  7. Georgakopoulos, Chris (4 March 2013). "Amanda Fowler scoops the pool Junior Sports Star awards". Penrith Press. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
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