Established 1970 Years offered 7-12 Campus Suburban Founded 1970 | Principal Mr Sonntag Enrolment ~780 Phone +61 2 6652 1077 | |
Type Public, Co-educational, Secondary, Day school Address Joyce St, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450, Australia Similar Coffs Harbour High Sch, Toormina High School, Coffs Harbour Christian, St John Paul College, Bishop Druitt College Profiles | ||
Orara High School, is a secondary school located in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. On 12 November 1969, approval was given for a new high school to be built on Joyce street. In August 1970, positions at the new school were advertised. In 1972, Orara High opened at its present Joyce Street site. Current student enrolment is more than 780.
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1991 Shooting
On 19 June 1991, a rifleman entered the grounds of Orara High School and fired several shots. Three persons were injured, including 2 members of staff and 1 student. The gunman was apprehended by a number of students who managed to tackle him to the ground, successfully ending the ordeal. The incident marked the first recorded instance of a shooting within an Australian high school.
Controversy
On 29 November 2013, the then Deputy Principal of Orara High School, Andrew Minisini, was charged with two counts of recruiting a child to engage in criminal activity, one count of malicious damage and one count of supplying a minor with alcohol. Minisini is alleged to have supplied and consumed alcohol with three female students who he had befriended, aged 16 and 17, before committing acts of vandalism against the home of the then school principal, Frank Stanton in Valla Beach. It is understood that Minisini was embroiled in a personal matter with Mr. Stanton at this time and is alleged to have recruited the girls to commit the malicious acts on his behalf. Minisini denied all accusations, appearing before the Coffs Harbour District Court in April 2014.