About Kogarah High School

Kogarah is a bustling but friendly suburb located 15 kilometres south of Sydney CBD.  Kogarah has a lively shopping centre with a wide range of shops and a cosmopolitan selection of cafes and restaurants.  The school is well served by public transport and is very close to Kogarah Station and public and private bus routes. Click here for bus and train information

Kogarah High is situated close to the shore of Botany Bay and is close to Mascot airport.  Kogarah is also the home of the St George-Illawarra Rugby League Team. 

Kogarah High School is located within easy walking distance of the beautiful beaches of historic Botany Bay.  Students visit the beaches as part of a beach fitness program through sport and also through science and social science study programs such as coast watch and stream watch.  How many schools have classrooms which can boast views as magnificent as this? 

The School

Kogarah High School has a long history of student achievement both on the sporting field, including sporting greats such as Ken Rosewall, Bruce Crampton, Norman O'Neill and Gary Chapman.  The school also has an outstanding academic record.

St. George and Sutherland Shire Leader, September 5, 2006

Picture:  Jane Dyson

Kogarah MP Cherie Burton is pictured with students at Kogarah High School after she announced funding to upgrade its food technology facilities and heating and repair a retaining wall. The works are part of an $860,000 urgently needed repair and maintenance work program which will see roofing repaired at Hurstville and Kogarah Public Schools, footpaths repaired at Carlton Public School and a fence replaced at Connell's Point Public School. Sydney Technical High School will have guttering repaired, Georges River College and Hurstville Boys Campus will have floors repaired, and Kingsgrove High will have its food technology facilities repaired.

As recently as 23rd May 2003 Kogarah High School received a warm congratulation in Parliament House for the work done:

Miss BURTON (Kogarah) [5.03 p.m.]: I draw to the attention of the House, and pay tribute to, the achievements of some students of Kogarah High School. First I note the achievements of the dux of the school for 2002, John Zhu. John was placed in band 6 for all his subjects: English as a Second Language, Physics, Chemistry, Extension 2 Maths and IPT. This resulted in John gaining a university admission index of 99.9 per cent. He was also placed on the Higher School Certificate All-round Achievers List and received the Premier's Award for All-round Excellence in the 2002 Higher School Certificate. On behalf of the entire community of Kogarah, I congratulate John on a remarkable achievement... John should be an inspiration to all students at Kogarah High School.

NSW Legislative Assembly Hansard p289 6 May 2003

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