Albury High School

Albury High School
Albury High School
	Albury High School, pictured in 2007
Location
	Kiewa Street, Albury, New South Wales; Australia
Coordinates	36°04′22″S 146°54′57″E / 36.072863°S 146.915874°E
Information
Type	Government-operated comprehensive secondary school
Motto	Latin: Ad Astra Per Aspera; (To the stars through difficult and challenging ways)
Established	1920; 104 years ago
School district	Albury; Rural South and West
Educational authority	NSW Department of Education
Principal	Darryl Ward
Years	7–12
Enrolment	974 (2018)
Color(s)	Red, black and white
Yearbook	Southern Cross
Website	albury-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Albury High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school located in Albury, a city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1920, the school enrolled approximately 1,000 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom four percent identified as Indigenous Australians and ten percent were from a language background other than English.^[3] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Darryl Ward.^[2]

History

Albury High School was established in 1920 and occupied an old hospital building in Thurgoona Street, Albury. Under the guidance of the first headmaster, J. G. Monaghan, the school quickly grew and gained more than 200 pupils. This significantly dropped in the mid-1920s, however after the establishment of a parents and citizens association that was treated as a separate body, the school began to grow once more. The school moved into its current location in Kiewa Street on 28 March 1928, after the building of a permanent site to the tune of $50,000. The enrolment at the class slowly grew, with only a minor hitch when the school was classified as a Third Class High School. Eventually, the school gained its classification as a First Class High School and the numbers continued to grow. The addition of further buildings in the 1970s as well as the decision to include the Principal's residence as a teaching space helped aid the increasing enrolment.

In 2014, a fire destroyed the administration office.^[4]

Notable alumni

Anne Boyd – composer and academic; professor of music at the University of Sydney[5]
Jacob Koschitzke – Australian Rules Footballer
Max Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer
Anthony Miles – Australian Rules Footballer
Gabriella Pound – AFLW player
Richard Roxburgh – actor
Paul Spargo – Australian Rules Footballer
Percy Trezise – Australian pilot, painter, explorer and writer