Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts
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Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts is a specialist co-educational, government secondary school located in Fairy Meadow
, a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales
, Australia
, run by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training
. It was founded in 1916.
The school enrolls both local area students and students who gain entry through auditions. The school estimates that over a third of the student body has gained entry through auditions.
The school focuses primarily on academic excellence and excellence in the performing arts and boasts of examination results, well above average and a high level of tertiary acceptance.
Fairy Meadow, New South Wales
Fairy Meadow is a suburb in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Located in the Illawarra, it is a mainly low density residential area, except for a strip on the Princes Highway....
, a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales
New South Wales
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, Australia
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, run by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training
New South Wales Department of Education and Training
The New South Wales Department of Education and Communities, a department of the Government of New South Wales, is responsibile for primary schools, secondary schools and Technical and Further Education colleges...
. It was founded in 1916.
The school enrolls both local area students and students who gain entry through auditions. The school estimates that over a third of the student body has gained entry through auditions.
The school focuses primarily on academic excellence and excellence in the performing arts and boasts of examination results, well above average and a high level of tertiary acceptance.
Notable alumni
- Alan Edward Davis - Rhodes Scholar (1956).
- Clyde Roger Sydney Houghton - Rhodes Scholar (1969)
- Mark KerryMark KerryMarcus "Mark" Anthony Kerry is a former Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won three Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics as the backstroker for the Quietly Confident Quartet...
- Olympic gold medalist in swimming - Nicholas CowderyNicholas CowderyNicholas Richard Cowdery AM QC was the Director of Public Prosecutions for the Australian state of New South Wales. He held the position from 1994 to 2011. Cowdery also served as President of the International Association of Prosecutors from 1999 to 2005.Cowdery attended Wollongong High School and...
- NSW Director of Public Prosecutions from 1994-present - Natalie BassingthwaighteNatalie BassingthwaighteNatalie Bassingthwaighte is an Australian actress, singer-songwriter and television personality. She began her career as an actress on the television series All Saints. She then starred in the American television movie Counterstrike...
- Australian Singer and Actress
See also
- List of creative and performing arts high schools in New South Wales
- List of Government schools in New South Wales