Cronulla High School


Cronulla High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school that is located in Cronulla, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school was established in 1961, and has an enrolment of approximately 1,300 students from the grades Year 7 to Year 12.
Cronulla High School has a close proximity to the Tasman Sea and Botany Bay, located in a relatively large local catchment area with a large enrolment of roughly 1,300 students. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the current principal is Tony Ibrahim.

History

Establishment of Cronulla High School

The school was established and first built in 1961 under the name of Cronulla High School in the Southern Sydney suburb of Cronulla. The land was previously used as a sand mining ground, as it used to be sand dunes. After a while the land was put up for sale, which was later bought by the NSW Government after the site had finished mining and as the decision was made to build a secondary school. This decision was made to decrease the travel distance and time to other secondary schools, since some of the surrounding suburbs continued to expand and become more populated from an increasing rate of development and housing.

Co-curriculum

Cronulla High School offers programs including athletics, Aussie Rules Swan Shield, Australian rules football, rugby league, rugby union, soccer, triathlon, softball, water polo, volleyball, swimming, surfing, cricket, baseball, netball, music, drama, dance, computing, creative arts, mathematics, science, languages, technology, industrial and engineering.
The school features a developed Performing Arts Program and a Targeted Surfing Program.

Campus facilities

Facilities

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Block A

  • Main office
  • 3 deputy principal offices
  • Principals office
  • Councillors office
  • Careers office
  • Learning support room
  • Medical care room
  • HSIE staff room
  • 2 Computer rooms
  • 5 HSIE rooms

    Block B

  • English staff room
  • Science staff room
  • 2 Japanese rooms
  • 5 English rooms
  • 3 Science lab rooms
  • 2 Science theory rooms

    Block C (Music Building)

  • 2 Music rooms
  • Instrumental store room

    Block D

  • Mathematics staff room
  • Creative and Performing Arts staff room
  • Home Economics & Languages staff room
  • 2 Textiles rooms
  • 2 Visual Arts rooms
  • 2 Food Technology rooms
  • 2 General classrooms
  • 2 Science labs

    Block E

  • Technology staff room
  • 2 Timber workshop rooms
  • 1 Metal workshop room
  • 1 Engineering workshop room
  • 1 Industrial Technology theory room

    Block F (School Halls)

The school has two halls that are conjoined together that have changing rooms, which was formerly one hall until the completion of the second hall in 2024, in which that hall 2 can be used as an extension of hall 1.

Block I (Performing Arts Studio)

  • Dance studio room
  • Drama studio room

    Block M

  • Canteen
  • Toilets
  • Staff common room
  • PDHPE staff room
  • Sports store room
  • 6 General classrooms

    Block P

  • 12 General demountable classrooms in 2024
  • 1 Music demountable classroom
  • 1 Food Technology demountable classroom

    Library

  • Library office
  • Multimedia classroom
  • 1 Computing Studies classroom
  • Computing Studies staff room
  • 2 Senior Study rooms
  • 2 General classrooms

    Recreational area

The recreational area contains two Football fields and two Basketball courts, as well as extra grass space.

Notable alumni