Parramatta High School

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Parramatta High School
Location
Great Western Highway, Parramatta, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	33°49′03″S 150°59′51″E / 33.81750°S 150.99750°E / -33.81750; 150.99750
Information
Type	Government-funded co-educational dual modality partially academically selective and comprehensive secondary day school
Motto	Latin: Fax Mentis Incendium Gloriae (The torch of the mind lights the path to glory)
Established	1913; 111 years ago (1913)
School district	Parramatta; Sydney metropolitan South
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Principal	(Dominique Splatt - retired 2024) ,
Enrolment	~1300
Campus	Urban
Colour(s)	Royal blue, sky blue, grey, white
Newspaper	Phoenix
Website	parramatta-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Parramatta High School (abbreviated as PHS and colloquially known as Parra High) is a government-funded co-educational dual modality partially academically selective and comprehensive secondary day school, located on the Great Western Highway in the central business district of Parramatta, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1913, the school was the first co-educational school in the Sydney metropolitan area and was previously a fully selective high school. Since 2013, it has been partially selective in the Parramatta region with a high multicultural student base.^[1] The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and has over 1000 students from Year 7 to Year 12. The school ranked 93rd in 2019 for the NSW Higher School Certificate.