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Pasadena High School (South Australia)

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Type
  
High School

School district
  
Inner-south

Enrolment
  
180 (2015)

Motto
  
Pathways to Success

Founded
  
1964

Established
  
1964

Principal
  
Wendy House

Phone
  
+61 8 8152 6800

Number of students
  
180 (2015)

Staff
  
36 teaching staff 20 School Services Officers

Address
  
Daws Rd, Pasadena SA 5042, Australia

Similar
  
Mitcham Girls High School, Blackwood High School, Seaview High School, Hamilton Secondary College, Urrbrae Agricultural High Sch

Pasadena High School is in the southern Adelaide suburb of Pasadena, on the corner of Goodwood and Daws Roads. It opened in 1964 as Daws Road High School and operated under this name until 2001.

The campus caters to the Sturt Sabres Basketball Club and Flinders University. At one point this school had an enrolment upwards of 1,200. However, after a steady decline, it had 180 students in 2015.

The school also offers "Doorways to Construction", a program teaching the fundamentals of carpentry, and has a high-ranking ice hockey team, Pasadena Predators, which have won numerous awards. It is home to the historic Tower Arts Theatre and Pasadena's oval is used by the community - 12 of Cumberland United Football Club's junior teams train there, and the nearby Colonel Light Gardens Primary School uses Pasadena's oval for all its cricket training and games.

Notable Alumni

  • Kate Ellis, Federal Labor politician
  • Liam Macdonald, actor
  • Tracy Mann, actress
  • Brad Newley, Dual Olympic basketballer
  • Danyle Pearce, Australian Rules Footballer
  • Andrea Chaplin, Australian fencer , Dual Olympian
  • Glenn Ridge, former Sale of Century host and now radio presenter
  • Jason McDermid – trumpeter with Tom Jones, Peter Gabriel, Amy Winehouse
  • Joe Ingles - Olympic basketballer
  • John Schuman - musician Redgum
  • Scott Ninnis, Basketballer and former Adelaide 36ers coach
  • Scott Welsh, AFL footballer
  • Tania Gooley Humphry, Olympic beach volleyballer
  • Wayne Phillips, Australian cricketer
  • Martin Hamilton-Smith, state MP
  • References

    Pasadena High School (South Australia) Wikipedia