| Birrong Girls High School | |||||||||||
| Country: | Australia | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | -33.8898°N 151.0264°W | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Australia Sydney#New South Wales#Australia | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 240 | ||||||||||
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| District: | Chullora; Metropolitan South | ||||||||||
| Principal: | Zena Dabaja | ||||||||||
| Grades Label: | Years | ||||||||||
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| Enrolment: | 786[1] | ||||||||||
| Enrolment As Of: | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Teaching Staff: | 55.4 FTE (2018) | ||||||||||
Birrong Girls High School is a government-funded single-sex comprehensive secondary day school for girls, located on Cooper Road, Birrong, a western suburb of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1957, the school enrolled approximately 790 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom one percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 94 percent were from a language background other than English.[1] 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 Zena Dabaja.[2]
The school was established on 29 January 1957 as Birrong Home Science School. It was officially reopened as a multi-lateral high school, with the new name Birrong Girls High School, on 25 September 1959.[3]
Amongst its students there is a diverse range of cultural backgrounds representing 46 language groups, the majority of whom are from Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese and Turkish backgrounds.[1]