Hornsby Girls' High School
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Hornsby, New South Wales Australia |
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| Coordinates | 33°42′23″S 151°6′5″E / 33.70639°S 151.10139°ECoordinates: 33°42′23″S 151°6′5″E / 33.70639°S 151.10139°E |
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| Type | Public, Single-sex, Selective, Day school |
| Motto | Faith with Fortitude |
| Established | 1930 |
| Principal | Dr. Justin Briggs |
| Enrolment | 730 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Fawn & navy blue |
| Website | hornsbygir-h.schools.nsw.edu.au |
Hornsby Girls' High School is an academically selective, public high school for girls, located in Hornsby, a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Founded in 1930, the school's first principal was Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster.
Academically, Hornsby Girls' is regularly ranked first in the Hornsby region in terms of Higher School Certificate (HSC) results and is repeatedly ranked as one of the top five performing schools in the state.
They also have a student exchange program with three of their languages - Japanese, French and German. Their Japanese sister school is Shukutoku Yono which is situated in Saitama, their German sister school is Graf-Rasso in Furstenfeldbruck and have visited New Caledonia a few times in recent years.
The 13 faculties in the school are: Computing Studies, English, History, Geography, Languages, Mathematics, Music, Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PD/H/PE), Science, Social Sciences, Technology and Applied Studies (TAS), and Visual Arts.
At Hornsby Girls High school, there is a prefect system with a School Captain, School Vice-Captain, two Senior Prefects and 20 other prefects. The Prefects aim to serve the school community in four main areas: School spirit and environment, service, public relations and policy, and events. A new group Year 12 Travel Prefects have been introduced from 2010. Their main responsibility is to monitor the conduct of HGHS students when in the public domain, travelling to and from school.
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