Sydney Church of England Girls' Grammar School
| SCEGGS Darlinghurst | |
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Darlinghurst, New South Wales Australia 
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| Coordinates | 33°52′33″S 151°13′6″E / 33.87583°S 151.21833°ECoordinates: 33°52′33″S 151°13′6″E / 33.87583°S 151.21833°E |
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| Type | Independent, Single-sex, Day and Boarding |
| Motto |
Latin: Luceat Lux Vestra (Matthew 5:16:"Let Your Light Shine") |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Established | 1895 |
| Founder | Edith Badham |
| Chairman | Sharon Cook |
| Principal | Jenny Allum |
| Staff | ~120 |
| Enrolment | ~890 (K–12) |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue and White |
| Website | www.sceggs.nsw.edu.au |
SCEGGS Darlinghurst is an independent, Anglican school for girls, located in Darlinghurst, an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Founded in 1895, as the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School, the school's official name was replaced with SCEGGS Darlinghurst in 1995. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 890 students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The school is regularly amongst the top-performing schools in New South Wales. Whilst predominantly a day school, SCEGGS offers a small number of boarding places at St Vincent's College, Potts Point.
SCEGGS is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), and is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).
In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked SCEGGS Darlinghurst second in Australia's top ten girls' schools, based on the number of its alumni mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians).
On 17 July 1895, a Grammar School for Girls was officially opened in Sydney under the auspices of the Sydney Diocese of the Church of England. The Sydney Church of England Girls' Grammar School (or S.C.E.G.G.S.) commenced in a terrace house at 65 (now 55) Victoria Street, Darlinghurst with one pupil, Mary Watson, one teacher, Miss Janet Uther, and the Principal, Miss Edith Badham. Within a year, the school had increased to 50 pupils enrolled, and moved to "Chatsworth", a larger home in Macleay Street.
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