Lismore High School
| Lismore High Campus: The Rivers Secondary College | |
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Lismore, New South Wales Australia |
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| Coordinates | 28°49′13.46″S 153°17′48.57″E / 28.8204056°S 153.2968250°ECoordinates: 28°49′13.46″S 153°17′48.57″E / 28.8204056°S 153.2968250°E |
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| Type | Public, Secondary, co-educational, Day school |
| Motto |
Latin: Spectemur Agendo ("Let us be judged by our commodores.") |
| Established | January 1920 |
| Principal | Mr Nigel Brito |
| Enrolment | ~655 (7–12) |
| Campus | Dalley Street |
| Colour(s) | Gold and Black |
| Website | Lismore High School |
Lismore High Campus, (abbreviation LHS) is a school located in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, on Dalley Street, East Lismore. It runs as a collaborative effort between two other Lismore high schools, Richmond River Campus and Kadina High Campus. Together the three schools form the Rivers Secondary College. It is a co-educational high school operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training with students from years 7 to 12. The school was established in 1920.
The first site of LHS was on Lake Street, North Lismore (the present Richmond River High School site). On 23 November 1918, the foundation stone was laid for the new high school building by the Member for Lismore, George Nesbitt. At the time of its establishment in January 1920, it was one of only five high schools outside the Sydney metropolitan area. It served the Richmond River area and until 1929 with the opening of Murwillumbah High School, was the only high school between Grafton and the Queensland border.
The Chinese-Australian journalist Vivian Chow Yung attended LHS in its beginning years. Told in 1923 by an Irish-Australian schoolteacher at LHS "You are Australian now. Why worry so much about China? What does China mean to you?", Chow responded "Sir, you were born in Australia, but you are always telling us about Home Rule for Ireland. What does Ireland mean to you?"
The second site of LHS was on Magellan Street in the city precinct.
By 1957 LHS was one of the largest secondary schools in the state, with an enrolment of 1,438 students and a staff of 67 teachers.
This represented the zenith of its enrolments as the establishment of other high schools took effect: Kyogle (1955), Mullumbimby (1955), Ballina (1956) and Richmond River (1958).
The writer Bob Ellis attended LHS at this time and in a moving speech in May 1998 acknowledged the "selfless teachers I am proud to have known" and that "Lismore High gave us not only the intellectual armaments that made it possible for us to prevail in the great world beyond Lismore, but it also gave us a sense of that possibility".
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