North Sydney Technical High School
Location: 33°50′25″S 151°12′26″E / 33.84040833333334°S 151.2072°E
North Sydney Technical High School on Blue Street, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Over the years, the school has been progressively upgraded as St Leonards Public School, St Leonards Superior Public School, North Sydney Superior Public School, North Sydney Primary School, North Sydney Intermediate High School, North Sydney–Chatswood Junior High, and, finally, as North Sydney Technical High School until its closure in 1969.
Developing from probably the first school on the colony’s northern shore, the origins of the school started in 1844 in a two-room weather-board cottage (no longer in existence) on Blues Point Rd close to Lavender Street, then to a small stone school house at 12 Miller Street.
A new school-house was built during 1877 in Gothic Revival style at Blue Street, North Sydney by the New South Wales Council for Education. Officially opened in 1878, it offered education for boys and girls from Infants to Primary. Extensions were added over time, with the second story class-rooms completed in 1893.
Often referred to colloquially as “Greeny’s” for Nimrod Greenwood, its longest-serving head-master (1884-1914), the school grew, spawned others, was modified and shaped; its curriculum specialities and name, changing to reflect the needs of a rapidly expanding north shore community; its educational philosophy inspiring achievement over generations.
• 1874: St Leonards Public School
• 1886: St Leonards Superior Public School
• 1910: North Sydney Superior Public School
• 1912: North Sydney Intermediate High School.
• 1914: "Intermediate" graduate girls seeking further study transferred to the new North Sydney Girls High School on Lane Cove Road (now Pacific Highway).
• 1915: "Intermediate" graduate boys seeking Leaving Certificate qualifications enrolled at the newly opened North Sydney Boys High School at Falcon Street.
• 1931: "Infant and Primary" students were transferred en bloc to the new North Sydney Demonstration School on the Lady Hay Estate, at the corner of Pacific Highway and Bay Road.
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