Manly Selective Campus

Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Selective Campus
Address
138 Abbott Road North Curl Curl, New South Wales, 2099 Australia
Information
School type	Government selective co-educational
Motto	Latin: Capimus Sed Tradimus (What We Receive, We Pass On)
Established	1859
Principal	Tony Rudd
Teaching staff	50
Grades	7 - 12
Enrolment	795 (2014)
Student to teacher ratio	16:1
Houses	Bligh, Hunter, Macquarie, Phillip
Colour(s)	Navy blue and white
Yearbook	The Pines
Information	9905 3982
Website	www.manlyselective.nsw.edu.au/

Manly Selective Campus is a selective government high school for students in years 7 to 12 located in North Curl Curl, New South Wales, Australia. It is a part of the Northern Beaches Secondary College, a 5 campus college across Sydney's Northern Beaches, formed in 2003. Year Seven admission to this campus is based entirely on academic excellence through the Selective High Schools Test. Students seeking enrolment into Years 8 - 11 will be coordinated through the school, but must also sit for the Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER), Higher Ability Selection Test

Manly Selective Campus tops the Northern Beaches on Merit List Rankings in the HSC, and came 8th in the state in 2014. It was placed 7th in both the 2010 and 2012 HSC rankings, a leap from 15th back in 2008 and 2009, and 20th back in 2007.

The graduating class of 2012 is currently the highest achieving cohort on record, achieving a ranking of 7th overall as compared with other NSW state and non- government schools. This peer group is the fourth ever to place Manly in the top 10 and also the first year the school overtook Sydney Boys High School.

Manly Selective Campus has a long history after being founded in 1859 as Manly Public School, on the corner of Belgrave and Carlton Streets in Manly. In 1882 it was moved to a site in Darley Road, where it operated until 1945, and is the site of the current Manly Village Public School.

1925 saw the school become an Intermediate High School, and became solely a boys school from 1926. The school expanded rapidly, and became Manly Junior High in 1944. In 1945, the school moved to the site of the current Balgowlah Boys Campus, and in 1949 had expanded to include senior years.

In 1954 student numbers reached 1200, and the bulk of these students moved to the current site on Abbott Road in North Curl Curl as Manly Boys High School. The school became co-educational in 1983 and was renamed Manly High School, at the same time as the nearby Manly Girls High also became co-educational and was renamed Freshwater High. Manly High was granted selective status in 1990, and was incorporated into the Northern Beaches Secondary College at its founding and given its current name in 2002.

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