| Fairfield High School | |||||||||||
| Motto: | To Live is to Learn | ||||||||||
| District: | Fairfield | ||||||||||
| Enrolment: | 1,099 | ||||||||||
| Grades Label: | Years | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | -33.8649°N 150.958°W | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Australia Sydney | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 240 | ||||||||||
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| Country: | Australia | ||||||||||
| Colours: | Maroon and blue | ||||||||||
Fairfield High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Fairfield, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1955 through the merge of two adjacent single-sex high schools: Fairfield Boys High School and Fairfield Girls High School, the school caters for approximately 1,100 students from Year 7 to Year 12. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education.
Fairfield High School is a comprehensive local high school located in the heart of the City of Fairfield. Situated in the south western suburbs of Sydney, the school is located on the fringe of the Fairfield Central business district along The Horsley Drive. On the opposite side of the road is the Fairfield Public School and many students graduate from the public school into the high school.
There is a large footbridge (Eva Wesley Stone Pedestrian Bridge) over the Horsley Drive which allows safe access over the road. The $2 million bridge was opened in March 2002 and was named after Eva Wesley Stone, a centenarian Fairfield resident who attended Fairfield Public School and had died in 2001 at the age of 106.[1]
Fairfield High School offers a comprehensive education in a coeducational setting following the NSW curriculum. It contains an Intensive English Centre which caters for newly arrived students from overseas. The school provides for the needs of these students on entry into the Australian high school setting. Prospect Creek runs northeast of the school, along its oval.
Fairfield is one of the most densely populated suburbs in Sydney containing residents from all over the world. The community is one of the most multicultural communities in Sydney.[2]
Fairfield High School in 2016 underwent a rebranding process changing the logo and uniforms. The current logo is designed by western Sydney designer Michael Schepis, creative director at Handle Branding.
The new branding and identity draws from its past evolutions and further references the historic Lansdowne Bridge and the bridging of the community and the schools as Fairfield was once divided into an all boys and all girls school.
The Fairfield High School building is also used for adult education classes through MacArthur Community College.