| Blakehurst High School | |||||||||||
| Motto: | Latin: Nihil Sine Labore | ||||||||||
| Motto Translation: | Nothing without work | ||||||||||
| Country: | Australia | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | -33.9808°N 151.1133°W | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Australia Sydney#New South Wales#Australia | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 240 | ||||||||||
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| Specialist: | Languages | ||||||||||
| Principal: | Sophie Kapsimalis | ||||||||||
| Established: | [1] | ||||||||||
| Staff: | 110 | ||||||||||
| Enrolment: | 1,113[2] | ||||||||||
| Enrolment As Of: | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Teaching Staff: | 77.6 FTE (2018) | ||||||||||
| Grades Label: | Years | ||||||||||
Blakehurst High School is a Government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school with speciality in languages,[3] located in Blakehurst, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1960, the school enrolled approximately 1,110 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12,[4] of whom one percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 85 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 Sophie Kapsimalis.
The school has around 1138 students, 80 teaching staff and 30 non-teaching staff. 40% of the students are from an Anglo-Celtic background and 81.8% of students identify as having a non-English speaking background, many of whom were born in Australia.[5] Of these students, the largest group is of Chinese background, 30% of the school population, and the second largest is Greek at 10%. Of the remaining 60%, there are over 40 language groups represented, including one Egyptian and one Mexican.
In 2000 the school was award the title Specialist Languages High School as part of the Outstanding Schools Program.[1]
Blakehurst high school has an International students program, and enrol approximately 60 international students each year.[6]
The school has an exchange student program with a partner high school in Japan.[7]