Peter Board High School
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North Ryde, New South Wales Australia 
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| Type | Public, co-educational, Secondary school |
| Motto | "Success Through Endeavour" |
| Established | January 1962 (North Ryde HS) January 1986 (Peter Board HS) |
| Status | Closed |
| Closed | December 1998 |
| Campus | Wicks Road, North Ryde |
| Colour(s) | Red, Navy Blue and Green |
Peter Board High School (abbreviation:PBHS), known from 1962-1985 as North Ryde High School (abbreviation:NRHS), is a former co-educational public high school in the northern Sydney suburb of North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.
The school was originally established in January 1962 as "North Ryde High School", located on a large site in North Ryde bounded by Waterloo Road, Wicks Road and Epping Road. In 1965, when Malvina High School was established in the neighbouring suburb of Ryde, North Ryde High School was used to house 2nd Form classes until the construction of the school was complete.
In 1985 the decision was taken to rename the school "Peter Board High School", after the first Director of Education in New South Wales who oversaw a significant implementation of the Public Schools Act 1880. The name change took effect from January 1986. The name change also saw the closure of the nearby Ryde High School (established 1960), with its students transferred to Peter Board High. The school's catchment area stretched from Eastwood to North Sydney and its student population was known for a wide diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. As a result of falling enrolments in the late 1990s, the Department made the decision to close the school in 1998, on the basis that enrolments would continue to fall, with the remaining students transferred to Malvina High School.
Following the school's closure, in 2006 the Department of Education and Training sold the site to Dexus Property Group for $51.75 million. Demolition of the school buildings subsequently commenced, which were completed by July 2008. The school oval was retained by the Department for use as a Hockey field for the Ryde Hunters Hill District Hockey Club and ownership was later transferred in 2012 from the Department to the State Sporting Venues Authority. In 2013 Dexus sold the former school site to Masters Home Improvement, with the intention of being the site of a new hardware store. However, with the collapse of the Masters retail business the site has been put up for sale once more. In response, the mayor of Ryde, Jerome Laxale, called upon the government to buy back the land for a new school, to help alleviate the high demand for schools in the Ryde area: "This is a great opportunity for the State Government to purchase the land of the proposed Masters Store and meet the increasing need for schools in this area that it did not address in its ‘Plan for Growing Sydney’".
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