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In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked North Sydney Girls High School first in Australia's top ten girls' schools, based on the number of its alumnae mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia. [3] In 2022, North Sydney Girls High School ranked as the fourth high school in the state, based on the percentage of exams sat that achieved a Distinguished ...
The Independent Girls' Schools Sporting Association was established in 1922 [2] as the Girls Secondary Schools Sports Union. [3] Commencing with just five members, [2] all of them independent, Protestant schools for girls, [3] IGSSA grew rapidly in the 1980s and 90s following the introduction of graded competition for many sports, improving competitions and adding new sports.
The school is named in honour of the Cammeraygal, a clan of the Eora tribe of Indigenous Australians who inhabited the lower north shore of Sydney. [2]The school site originally opened in 1914 as North Sydney Girls High School until December 1993, when North Sydney Girls relocated across the Pacific Highway to the site of the closed Crows Nest Boys High School. [3]
Monte Sant'Angelo is the oldest independent girls' school on Sydney's north shore. The College was established in 1865, on the corner of Miller and McLaren Street, North Sydney, by Mother Ignatius McQuoin of the Sisters of Mercy. [9] By 1879, the school had outgrown its original site and subsequently moved to its current location at Miller Street.
Sydney Girls High School has a long tradition of sports, in addition to academic scholarship and offers students a range of extra-curricular sports, including athletics, badminton, basketball, chess, cricket, cross country running, fencing, hockey, rowing, snow sports, soccer, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, water polo, and netball.
Pages in category "People educated at North Sydney Girls High School" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Sydney Morning Herald ranked Pymble Ladies' College the 20th highest performing school in NSW in 2022 [14] based on their HSC Success Rate, up from 25th in 2021. Notable alumnae [ edit ]