Cronulla High School

Cronulla High School (abbreviated as CHS) 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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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 and engineering.

The school features a developed Performing Arts Program and a Targeted Surfing Program.^[3]

Campus facilities

Facilities^[4]

Block A

• Main office (Level 1)
• 3 deputy principal offices (Level 1)
• Principals office (Level 1)
• Councillors office (Level 1)
• Careers office (Level 2)
• Learning support room (Level 1)
• Medical care room (Level 1)
• HISE staff room (Level 2)
• 2 Computer rooms (Level 1)
• 5 HISE rooms (Level 2)

Block B

• English staff room (Level 2)
• Science staff room (Level 1)
• 2 Japanese rooms (Level 2)
• 5 English rooms (Level 2)
• 2 Science lab rooms (Level 1)
• 4 Science theory rooms (Level 1)

Block C (Music Building)

• 2 Music rooms
• Instrumental store room

Block D

• Math staff room (Level 2)
• Visual Arts and Music staff room (Level 2)
• Food Technology staff room (Level 1)
• 2 sowing rooms (Level 2)
• 2 Art rooms (Level 2)
• 2 Food Technology rooms (Level 1)
• 2 theory rooms (Level 2)
• 2 Science labs (Level 1)

Block E

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

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 (Level 1)
• Toilets (Level 1)
• Staff common room (Level 1)
• PDHPE staff room (Level 1)
• Sports store room (Level 1)
• 6 theory rooms for the use of years 11 and 12 only (Level 2)

Block P

• Music room
• Food Technology room
• 9 Math rooms

Library

• Library front desk (Level 2)
• M&M room (Level 1)
• 2 Computer rooms (Level 3)
• Technology staff room (Level 3)
• 2 study rooms (Level 3)
• Year 11 and 12 study spaces (Levels 1 and 3)
• 2 theory rooms (Level 3)

Recreational area

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

Notable alumni

• Russell Aitken – (Former professional rugby league footballer who played for the NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Melbourne Storm, as well as other rugby league teams like Newcastle Thunder in the UK and AS Carcassonne in France, Aitken was the head coach of the NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons)
• Tony Graham – (Former professional rugby league footballer who played for the NRL Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the NSWRL St. George Dragons)
• Andrew Kerr – (Former Australian water polo player who competed in the Summer Olympics multiple times)
• Kathy Lette – (Best-Selling author and co-author of Puberty Blues)
• Mark Occhilupo – (Australian professional surfer and a presenter on Fuel TV Australia who won the 1999 ASP World title)
• Tyrone Peachey – (Professional rugby league footballer who plays for the NRL Penrith Panthers)
• Grace Pitts – (Singer and a songwriter who was a contestant on The Voice Australia)

See also

1. ^ "Australian School Dictionary - Cronulla High School overview". 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
2. ^ "NSW Local secondary school catchment areas". 27 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
3. ^ "Highschool Australia - Cronulla High School curriculum". Retrieved 25 August 2023.
4. ^ "Cronulla High School facilities". Retrieved 11 February 2024.