Illawarra Sports High School
Illawarra Sports High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Berkeley, a southern suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.
| Illawarra Sports High School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
Berkeley, New South Wales Australia | |
| Coordinates | 34°28′49″S 150°51′13″E |
| Information | |
| Former name | Berkeley High School (1956-1998) |
| Type | Government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school |
| Motto | Latin: Integer vitae (Blameless in Life) |
| Established | 1956 (as Berkeley High School) |
| School district | Illawarra North; Regional South |
| Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
| Specialist | Sports school |
| Principal | Gary Hampton |
| Teaching staff | 64.3 FTE (2018) |
| Years | 7–12 |
| Enrolment | 737 (2018) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Navy, light blue, white |
| Affiliation | NSW Sport High School Association |
| Website | illawaspor-h |
Established in 1956 as the Berkeley High School, the school changed its name in 1998 in line with becoming a sports-oriented school. The Illawarra Sports High School caters for approximately 740 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 13 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 27 percent were from a language background other than English. The school draws the majority of its students from the southern Wollongong area; with an increasing number of students from the larger Illawarra area who access its specialist sports programs. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is Gary Hampton.
Illawarra Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association.