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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 ...
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1st Team HD Hake Shield first awarded 1975 was presented by The King's School in memory of Herbert Denys Hake OBE Headmaster of Kings (1939–1964). 2nd Team TE Bawden Shield first awarded 1975 was presented by The King's School Council. The AAGPS and CAS First Teams complete annually for the PJ Yeend Cup presented by Basketball NSW.
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]
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.
Sydney Girls High School was originally a division of Sydney High School in 1883. The building had two storeys walled off, with male occupancy on the first floor, and female occupancy on the second. The founding head mistress was Miss Lucy Wheatley-Walker (later Mrs Lucy Garvin). She was a recent English emigrant. [2]
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.