Concord High School is a co-educational high school located in the Sydney suburb of Concord (New South Wales, Australia).

Infrastructure

There was a foreshadowed upgrade of the school in the 2024-25 education budget's $3.6 billion for new and upgraded schools in Western Sydney. The upgrade included the demolition of the school's old school hall, canteen (Block E), and sports courts, whilst creating a number of new buildings were added Stanley Street. The changes included 40 new permanent classrooms across three new buildings, including 32 new standard classrooms, a new support learning unit with 3 classrooms, a new front facing administration and staff facilities, a new school hall, and a relocated library administration.

History

The school was opened in January 1980. It celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006.

Staff

In 2009, the school had a teaching staff of 60, with an ancillary non-teaching staff of 10. As of 2025, the school has a teaching staff of 83 (87.9 Full-time equivalent) and a non-teaching staff of 22 (14.8 Full-time equivalent) Past principals have included:

+ Past PrincipalsTenurePrincipalRef Initial Final 2019 (November) Current Victor Newby 2017 (June) 2019 (October) Jody Engisch 2009 2017 (June) Jacqueline Koob

- Jacqueline Koob was the relieving principal from term 2 of 2017 onwards, after Jacqueline Koob went on extended leave for the remainder of the year pending her eventual retirement. Koob officially retired in March 2018.

Before Jacqueline Koob, for the first part of the century, Don Stojanovic was the principal.

Students Enrollment

The planned school population in 2022 was 1,360. The recent trends in student enrollments (August figures) at this school have been:

+ Student enrolment trendsYearBoysGirlsTotalRef 2006 499 279 778 2007 515 280 795 2008 500 282 782 2009 504 293 797 2010 538 312 850 2012 - - 860 2013 543 332 875 2014 586 343 929 2015 636 367 1,003 2016 690 388 1,078 2017 727 402 1,129 2018 748 419 1,167 2019 783 446 1,229 2020 796 466 1,129 2021 778 482 1,260 2022 768 478 1,246 2023 763 460 1,223 2024 792 459 1,251 2025 753 453 1,206 2026 TBA TBA TBA

Multiculturalism

The recent trends in multicultural composition been:

+ Trends in multicultural studentsYearIndigenousLBOTERef 2014 2% 65% 2015 2% 65% 2016 2% 66% 2017 2% 65% 2018 3% 62% 2019 3% 69% 2020 2% 71% 2021 2% 71% 2022 2% 69% 2023 2% 70% 2024 1% 71% 2025 1% 71% 2026 TBA TBA

Curriculum

Languages

The school teaches the following languages: Chinese, French, Italian, and Japanese.

Sports Houses

The school's five sports houses are named after bays of the Parramatta River:

+ Sports HousesHouse NameBayColourRef Brays Brays Bay Blue Kendall Kendall Bay Purple Kings Kings Bay Red Majors Majors Bay Green Yaralla Yaralla Bay Yellow

Sports

Sports practiced at the school include:

Athletics cross-country soccer cricket tennis hockey touch football rugby union basketball netball softball

Grade sports compete in the Northern Suburbs zone and Sydney North region. Students also have the opportunity to participate in state-wide knockouts including:

soccer softball netball gymnastics diving recreational sport rugby union

Venues

The school is widely associated with sport. It is located near St. Lukes Oval, a multipurpose sporting ground with a 400m grass track, Five Dock Leisure Centre and Gym, Cintra Netball and Tennis Courts and Concord Football Oval.

BASS

Its BASS (Before and After School Sports) Program offers a wide variety of sporting activities before and after school hours, conducted by qualified specialist coaches, including:

Before school Strength and Fitness Futsal (Years 7–11) Table tennis

After school Basketball Tennis Soccer Volleyball Badminton Touch football

Extra-curricular activities

Extra-curricular activities provided by, and through, the school, include:

After Hours Tutoring Art Club Chess Club Debating/Public Speaking Club Drama Club Enviro Club Instrumental Ensembles Maths Club Men's Club Numeracy Club Peer Support Robotics Club Student Leadership Students' representative council (SRC) Student Volunteering Awards Symphonia Jubilate Women's Sports Club Women's Support Group

Music

The school has a String Ensemble, Concert Band, Stage Band, and a Choir.

Uniform policy

The standard of uniforms is regulated by the school uniform policy, with long-standing standards for the male uniform, female uniform, unisex sport uniform and general accessories, such as jewellery and make-up. The standards for a gender-neutral version of the uniform were first included in 2024.

Controversially, in 2014, a year-12 student, Jacqueline Koobat, who had dyed her hair pink was advise not to participate in the school photograph and then prohibited from attending the HSC English study day, as her hair colour was said to contravene the school's uniform policy at that time. The provision requiring "Hair to be a natural shade" became part of the school's uniform policy (16 June 2014) after this incident occurred, a provision which was repealed for the 2017 uniform policy.

Critical reception

See also

Education in New South Wales New South Wales Education Standards Authority Lists of schools in New South Wales List of government schools in New South Wales Education in Australia Lists of schools in Australia

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