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Yanco Agricultural High School | |
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Location | |
Australia | |
Coordinates | 34°38′07″S 146°23′00″E / 34.6354°S 146.3834°E |
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Type | Government-funded co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary day school |
Motto | Latin: Ut Sementem Feceris Ita Metes (As you sow, so shall you reap) |
Established | March 1922[1] |
School district | Narrandera; Rural South and West |
Educational authority | NSW Department of Education |
Specialist | Agricultural school |
Principal | Marni Milne |
Teaching staff | 34.2 FTE (2018)[2] |
Years | 7–12 |
Enrolment | 287[2] (2018) |
Campus size | 280 hectares (692 acres) |
Campus type | Rural and regional |
Colour(s) | Royal blue, grey, white, khaki |
Alumni | Old Yanconians |
Website | yancoag-h |
Official name | Yanco Agricultural High School; North Yanco Station; Samuel McCaughey's Homestead |
Type | State heritage (built) |
Designated | 7 June 2019 |
Reference no. | 2021 |
Type | School – Agricultural |
Category | Education |
Builders | William McFadzean of Narrandera (McCaughey Mansion) |
The Yanco Agricultural High School, abbreviated as YAHS, is a government-funded co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary boarding school, located in Yanco in the Leeton Shire local government area, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.
Yanco Agricultural High School is one of four government agricultural high schools; and is the only residential boarding school in New South Wales to have no day students. The school serves the south of New South Wales and Victoria, with the other agricultural high schools serving the other regions of the state.
Established in March 1922,[1] the school catered for approximately 300 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, including eight percent who identified as Indigenous Australians and one percent from a language background other than English.[2] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Greg Hunt.
Yanco Agricultural High School is located approximately ten kilometres (six miles) from the Leeton town centre along Euroley Road on a 280-hectare (692-acre) site including 60 hectares (150 acres) of natural bushland bordered by the Murrumbidgee River.[3] YAHS enjoys sport and plays around the district in school competitions, and in inter-town competitions.
The heritage-listed site was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 7 June 2019.[4]