Illawarra Sports High School Explained

Illawarra Sports High School
Former Name:Berkeley High School
Motto:Latin: Integer vitae
Motto Translation:Blameless in Life
Established:
Type:Government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school
Educational Authority:New South Wales Department of Education
District:Illawarra North; Regional South
Specialist:Sports school
Affiliation:NSW Sport High School Association
Principal:Gary Hampton
Location:Berkeley, New South Wales
Country:Australia
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Campus Type:Suburban
Enrolment:737[1]
Enrolment As Of:2018
Teaching Staff:64.3 FTE (2018)
Grades:7–12
Grades Label:Years
Colours:Navy, light blue, white

Illawarra Sports High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Berkeley, a southern suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1956 as the Berkeley High School, the school changed its name in 1998 in line with becoming a sports-oriented school. The Illawarra Sports High School caters for approximately 740 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 13 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 27 percent were from a language background other than English.[1] The school draws the majority of its students from the southern Wollongong area; with an increasing number of students from the larger Illawarra area who access its specialist sports programs.[2] The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is Gary Hampton.

Illawarra Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association.[3]

Sports offered

The Illawarra Sports High School operates a talented sports development program across the following sports: basketball, boxing, hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, soccer (affiliated with the Sydney FC[4] [5]), surfing,[6] touch football,[7] and wrestling.

Notable alumni

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Illawarra Sports High School, Berkeley, NSW: School profile . My School . . 2019 . 31 July 2019.
  2. Web site: About our school . Illawarra Sports High School . . n.d. . 5 July 2019 .
  3. Web site: High Performance Schools . School programs . Cricket NSW . 2019 . 7 July 2019 .
  4. Web site: Barrow, Tim . Sydney FC establish development pathway at Illawarra Sports High . Illawarra Mercury . 18 October 2017 . 6 July 2019 .
  5. Web site: Illawarra Sports High School . Sydney FC Academy Football Schools . . n.d. . 6 July 2019.
  6. News: Latifi, Agron . Illawarra Sports HS wins prestigious surfing challenge . The Advertiser Lake Times . 22 February 2017 . 6 July 2019 .
  7. Web site: Talented Sports Development Program: Sports Offered . Illawarra Sports High School . . n.d. . 5 July 2019 .
  8. http://sydneyfc.com/default.aspx?s=wleague_profile&pid=2509&tid=277 Caitlin Foord Sydney FC Profile
  9. Web site: London 2012 – Ryan Gregson Athlete Profile . 4 August 2012.
  10. Web site: Keith Lulia – Tigers . 27 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140322002407/http://www.weststigers.com.au/team/profiles/keith_lulia.html . 22 March 2014 . dead .

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