Richmond High School (New South Wales)

Richmond High School

Location

Lennox Street, Richmond, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	33°35′55″S 150°45′04″E / 33.5985°S 150.75121°E / -33.5985; 150.75121
Information
Type	Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
Motto	As Man Thinks So Shall He Be
Established	January 1955; 69 years ago (1955-01)^[1]
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Principal	Cliff Ralph
Enrolment	756^[2] (2015)
Campus type	Suburban
Colour(s)	Maroon and light blue
Website	richmond-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Richmond High School, (abbreviated as RHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located on Lennox Street, Richmond, in the Hawkesbury River region of New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1955, the school caters for approximately 750 students from Year 7 to Year 12. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education.

History

The school was established in January 1955. The motto is a translation of a phrase taken from the Book of Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7.

Allan G. Bromley – historian of computing
Dave Dennis – rugby union player; NSW Waratahs captain; Australian Wallabies
Ashton Irwin – drummer of pop-rock band 5 Seconds of Summer
Stephen O'Keefe – cricket player; NSW and Sydney 6ers all-rounder
Kevin Rozzoli – politician; Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1988–1995

^ "Richmond High – Cumberland". Government Schools of New South Wales from 1848. NSW Education and Communities. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
^ "Richmond High School". www.myschool.edu.au. Australian Curriculum Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA). Retrieved 25 September 2015.

Public high schools in the Western Sydney region

Public high and central schools in New South Wales (excluding the Sydney region)

Regional North

Regional South

Rural North

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Rural South and West

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Closed / defunct

Hawkesbury River region, New South Wales, Australia

Islands

National parks and nature reserves

European explorers of the region

Bridges and ferries

Bridges	Brooklyn Bridge Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge Hawkesbury River railway station Mooney Mooney Bridge Peats Ferry Bridge Windsor Bridge
Ferries	Berowra Waters Hawkesbury River Ferries Lower Portland Sackville Webbs Creek Wisemans

Adjoining rivers, bays,
reservoirs, and creeks

Rivers	Colo Grose Macdonald Nepean Warragamba Wolgan Wollangambe
Bays	Brisbane Water Broken Bay Pittwater
Reservoirs	Mangrove Creek Dam Warragamba Dam
Creeks	Badgerys Bells Berowra Blaxland Breakfast Coal and Candle Cowan Eastern Mangrove Mooney Mooney Reedy Ropes South Webbs Wollemi