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Westfields Sports High School | |
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Australia | |
Coordinates | 33°52′00″S 150°55′12″E / 33.866728°S 150.920104°E |
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Type | Government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school |
Motto | Latin: Fortitudo (Courage and Valour) |
Established | 1963 |
School district | Fairfield; Metropolitan South & West |
Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
Specialist | Sports school |
Principal | Andrew Rogers |
Faculty | ~115 |
Teaching staff | 112.4 FTE (2018)[1] |
Years | 7–12 |
Enrolment | 1,662[1] (2018) |
Area | 7 hectares (17 acres) |
Campus type | Suburban |
Colour(s) | Blue and gold |
Newspaper | Westnews |
Affiliation | NSW Sports High Schools Association |
Website | westfields-h |
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Westfields Sports High School (abbreviated as WSHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Fairfield West, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1963, the school caters for approximately 1,660 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom three percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 66 percent were from a language background other than English.[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Andrew Rogers.
Westfields Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association.[3] The school sits on a total area of approximately seven hectares (seventeen acres).