Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts
Location
Fairy Meadow, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	34°24′23″S 150°53′22″E / 34.40639°S 150.88944°E / -34.40639; 150.88944
Information
Former name	Wollongong High School
Type	Government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school
Motto	Latin: Age Quod Agis (Whatever you do, do well)
Established	1916; 108 years ago (1916)
School district	Illawarra
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Specialist	Performing arts
Principal	Kylie Woods
Teaching staff	86.0 FTE (2018)[1]
Years	7–12
Enrolment	1,188[1] (2018)
Campus type	Suburban
Colour(s)	Green, black and yellow
Website	wollongong-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

The Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school with speciality in performing arts, located in Fairy Meadow, a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1916, the school enrolled approximately 1,190 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom five percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 25 per cent were from a language background other than English.^[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education.

Approximately one-third of students gain entry through auditions.^{[citation needed]}

The school was established in 1916 in Smith Street Wollongong as Wollongong Home Science School, for girls only. At the time it was the only high school between Sydney and the Victorian border.^[2]

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (July 2018)

• Natalie Bassingthwaighte – Australian singer and actress^[3]
• Mikey Vincent – Australian actor
• Ashley Fisher – former tennis player^[4]
• Nicholas Cowdery AO, QC – former New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions
• Mark Kerry – Olympic gold medalist in swimming^[3]
• Peter MacKinnon and Peter Raengel, bandmates in the Sunday Painters^[5]
• Stephen Martin – former politician
• Evelyn Owen – Inventor
• Mary Puckey – first female superintendent of an Australian hospital
• Leigh Joel Scott – Australian writer and actor
• Mary Fowler – Australian professional footballer
• DPR Ian – Korean Australian singer, rapper and director

• List of government schools in New South Wales: Q–Z
• List of selective high schools in New South Wales