Cleveland Street Intensive English High School
| Cleveland Street Intensive English High School | |
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Cnr Cleveland Street and Chalmers Street Surry Hills 2010, New South Wales Australia |
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| Coordinates | 33°53′S 151°13′E / 33.883°S 151.217°ECoordinates: 33°53′S 151°13′E / 33.883°S 151.217°E |
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| Type | Public, Secondary, Co-educational, Day school |
| Motto | Harmony and Progress |
| Religious affiliation(s) | None |
| Established | 1856 |
| Principal | Jennifer Pilon |
| Staff | ~34 |
| Enrolment | ~225 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colour(s) | Blue and Yellow |
| Website | www.clevelandi-h.schools.nsw.edu.au |
Cleveland Street Intensive English High School (abbreviated to CSIEHS) is an ESL High School located in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia and operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities. The school provides intensive English language, settlement, orientation and welfare programs to secondary aged, newly arrived permanent, temporary resident and international students. Settlement support and partnership programs are provided for the school's culturally and linguistically diverse parent community. The school's student and parent community come from more than 30 language backgrounds other than English. Bilingual staff support student learning and parent programs. The school's motto "Harmony and Progress" reflects the proactively inclusive education and welfare programs designed to enhance student resilience and achievement.
The school was founded in 1856, and was a general high school until 1977, when the school was moved to Alexandria and later renamed Alexandria Park Community School. It is one of the oldest public schools in Australia still operating on its site. The site on Cleveland Street was then reworked as an annex of the school for newly arrived immigrants into Australia, then into its current form as an intensive English-language high school in 2001.
Students attending the school can come from as many as 100 different countries, bringing with them a great diversity of languages, customs and beliefs. Students are all newly arrived, non-English speaking background students of high school age. They study at the school for between 15 and 50 weeks at the school at which point most students transfer to other government high schools in order to complete their studies in the School Certificate or Higher School Certificate. Some students will choose to begin other courses of study at other institutions, such as Technical and Further Education TAFE, and some may go directly to the workplace.
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