Canley Vale High School

Canley Vale High School (abbreviated as CVHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Canley Vale, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Canley Vale High School
The school's main entrance
Location
Canley Vale,
South-Western Sydney, New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates33°53′6″S 150°57′5″E
Information
TypeGovernment-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
MottoWe Care
Established1965 (1965)
Educational authorityNew South Wales Department of Education
PrincipalPeter Rouse
Years7-12
Enrolment~1,400[1] (2012)
Campus typeSuburban
Colour(s)Blue and white   
Websitecanleyvale-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

School signs at the main gate of the campus, c. 2016

Established in 1965 in an area that once comprised orchards, the school now caters for approximately 1,500 students from Year 7 to Year 12. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; and its current principal is Peter Rouse.

Campus

The school is situated in Canley Vale, a suburb in south-western Sydney. The campus is built around the main quadrangle, next to the historic bell tower. Other facilities also include a multi-purpose school hall on the western end of the school, a table tennis complex near the quadrangle and a sports field to the north-east, outside of the school. Orphan School Creek which flows behind the campus, marks the school's northern boundaries.

The school is located about 10 minutes away from Canley Vale railway station.

Student life

Canley Vale High attracts many students from outside the local area and overseas due to its multicultural environment and student welfare program.[2] A high proportion of the school's student population comes from a non-English speaking background, which includes predominately those of Cambodian, Chinese and Vietnamese heritage as well as students with Polynesian backgrounds.

Academic results

Canley Vale High School has close ties with the local community and has a reputation for high academic achievement and expectations of student excellence;[3] and is one of the best academically non-selective co-educational public high schools in the Liverpool-Fairfield area.[4]

In 2016, the school was the highest ranked in Higher School Certificate results for New South Wales schools with the lowest levels of socio-educational advantage.[5]

Houses

As with most Australian schools, CVHS utilises a house system. Students are allocated to a house when they enter the school according to the first letter of their surname. There are four different houses under which students compete for the swimming, athletics and cross country carnivals:

House nameColourNamingNotes
Bonham  Red
Horsley  YellowThe Horsley Drive; itself drawn from the Horsley complex in Surrey, England[6]
Lennox  GreenLennox Bridge, Glenbrook and Lennox Bridge, Parramatta; itself drawn from the bridge's designer, David Lennox[7]
Parkes  BlueParkes Reserve, located near the school; likely to be drawn from Henry Parkes

Notable alumni

See also

References
  1. https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/schoolfind/locator/?do=showRecord&code=8393
  2. "Department of Education-School Profile".
  3. "DET - CVHS Overview". Archived from the original on 5 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  4. "Canley Vale HS Achievements". Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  5. Munro, Kelsey; Ting, Inga (16 December 2016). "HSC results 2016: The schools punching above their weight". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  6. The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, p.2/24
  7. "Lennox, David (1788–1873)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 10 October 2017 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  8. "Maria Tran". IMDb. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
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