| Narara Valley High School | |||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Australia New South Wales | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Image: | Australia New South Wales relief location map.png | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | top | ||||||||||
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| Country: | Australia | ||||||||||
| Established: | 1995 | ||||||||||
| District: | Central Coast; Regional North | ||||||||||
| Principal: | Andrew Skehan | ||||||||||
| Principal Label: | Principal | ||||||||||
| Enrollment: | 762[1] | ||||||||||
| Enrollment As Of: | 2022 | ||||||||||
| Ratio: | 11.9 | ||||||||||
| Teaching Staff: | 65.4 FTE (2020) | ||||||||||
| Grades Label: | Years | ||||||||||
| Gender: | Mixed | ||||||||||
| Age Range: | 12 to 18 | ||||||||||
| Motto: | For the Future | ||||||||||
| Colours: | Red and Silver | ||||||||||
Narara Valley High School (abbreviated as NVHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Narara, in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
The school caters for approximately 762 students in 2022, from year 7 to year 12, of whom eleven percent identified as Indigenous Australians and ten percent were from a language background other than English.[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; and the current principal is Andrew Skehan.
The school runs several music programs, including a selective creative and performing arts program and a concert band that frequently plays music at fund-raising events for the school and charity. Music classes are mandatory for all students enrolled in years 7 and 8, and the subject may be continued as an elective if a student wishes.[2] [3]
Until 2018, the school ran an academic acceleration program for highly engaged students who were invited to join a modified class that aimed to complete the HSC a year earlier than the cohort they initially joined with.[4] This class has since been discontinued, replaced by the STEP class at the beginning of 2018.