| James Cook Boys Technology High School | |
| Motto: | Ignotum Quarite (Seek the Unknown) |
| Streetaddress: | 800 Princess Highway |
| Coordinates: | -33.9661°N 151.1372°W |
| Established: | 1956 |
| Principal: | Mark Marciniak |
| Grades: | 7–12 |
| Website: | jamescookb-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
James Cook Boys Technology High School is a boys' secondary school situated on Princes Highway in Kogarah, Australia. The school is named after Captain James Cook, the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia.
James Cook was founded in 1956 after Moorefield racecourse was demolished. The site of the racecourse was divided to provide sites for three schools (Moorefield Girls High School, James Cook Boys Technology High School and St George School for kids with severe disabilities), St George TAFE. The rest of the site was allocated for residential development.
The school was renamed several times (originally Moorefield Boys High School) before becoming James Cook Boys. In 1990 the school faced a choice between becoming a sports or technology specialty secondary school, choosing to become a technology high school. The name was changed to James Cook Boys Technology High School in 1990.
Queen Elizabeth II visited the school on 29 April 1970 (the bicentennial year of James Cook's arrival in Australia) along with her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Anne, Princess Royal.
| Teaching staff | 34 | |
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| Full-time equivalent teaching staff | 29.3 | |
| Non-teaching staff | 7 | |
| Full-time equivalent non-teaching staff | 6.6 |
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| School ICSEA value | 974 | ||||||||||||||||
| Average ICSEA value | 1000 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Total enrolment | 262 | |
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| Girls | 0 | |
| Boys | 262 | |
| Full-time equivalent enrolment | 262 | |
| Indigenous students | 1% | |
| Language background other than English | 88% |
| Vocational education and training (VET) | ||
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| VET enrolment | 46 | |
| School-based apprenticeships and traineeships | 1 |
| Year 12 results | |||
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| Senior secondary certificate awarded | 68 | ||
| Completed senior secondary school | 72 | ||
James Cook Boys has teams in a variety of sports, including:
Regular summer grade sports: cricket, basketball, baseball, squash, table tennis, touch football, volleyball, and mini soccer
Regular winter grade sports: baseball, rugby league, soccer, softball, table tennis, tennis, and Australian rules football
Regular non-grade activities: fitness, senior rec and action sports both including soccer, basketball, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, touch football and special school
Moorefield Girls High School is considered to be the female counterpart or 'sister school' of James Cook Boys Technology High School, and has in the past engaged in prefect activities to organise a joint multicultural day. In the past these two schools have conducted combined classes in senior years (Years 11 & 12), where students will go across to the other school to participate in classes. They have also worked together in Crossroads, a 25-hour personal development and health course for years 11–12 which was a compulsory part of the HSC.