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Willoughby Girls High School

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Established
  
1934

Colour(s)
  
Navy blue and white

Phone
  
+61 2 9958 4141

Motto
  
Courage, Loyalty, Truth

Enrolment
  
~931 (7–12)

Campus
  
Suburban

Website
  
www.wghs.nsw.edu.au

Principal
  
Ms. Diprose

Founded
  
1934

Address
  
151 Mowbray Rd, Willoughby NSW 2068, Australia

School types
  
State school, Single-sex education, Secondary school, Day school

Similar
  
Chatswood High School, Killara High School, North Sydney Girls High, Killarney Heights High Sch, North Sydney Boys Hig

Willoughby Girls' High School (WGHS) is a public, secondary, day school for girls, located in Willoughby, a lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Established in 1934, Willoughby Girls' High currently enrols around 931 students from Years 7 to 12, and is the only comprehensive government girls' school situated on the lower north shore of Sydney.

Facilities and activities

Willoughby Girls High School has a variety of facilities for students, including tennis courts, a playing field, library, senior study rooms, canteen, science labs, computer labs, design and technology rooms, music studio, art rooms, a senior dark room and landscaped courtyards. The school has a wide variety of after school or extracurricular activities available for students. The school has also been providing extension classes for the last nine years in Maths, English and Science for those girls with higher marks, who must sit a test to earn their place each year.

Alumni

  • Evonne Goolagong (born 1951), tennis player.
  • Jeni Mawter (born 1959), children's author.
  • Yvonne Kenny (born 1950), opera singer.
  • Jo Haylen , NSW MP for seat of Summer Hill for the Australian Labor Party, elected 2015.
  • Justice Ruth McColl, Supreme Court of Australia
  • References

    Willoughby Girls High School Wikipedia