South Sydney High School
Location
O'Sullivan Avenue Maroubra , New South Wales , 2035 Australia
Coordinates	33°56′40.42″S151°14′7.00″E / 33.9445611°S 151.2352778°E /-33.9445611; 151.2352778
Information
Type	Public, co-educational, secondary school
Motto	Latin:Spectemur agendo (Let us be known by our deeds)
Established	January 1953[1]
Principal	Janice Neilsen
Enrolment	804 (7–12)[2]
Campus	Paine Street
Houses	Banks   Dutton   Lawson   Northcott
Colours	Green and Lemon   (Juniors, Yrs 7–10) White  (Seniors, Yrs 11–12)
Yearbook	The Southerner
Website	South Sydney High School

South Sydney High School is a public school inMaroubra, Sydney, Australia. Established in 1953 as a boys high school, it is today a co-educational high school operated by theNew South Wales Department of Education for students fromYear 7 toYear 12. It primarily serves those coming from South Eastern Sydney and theEastern Suburbs regions.

Following theSecond World War it was determined that the Maroubra Junction Technical School would be crowded out of its premises onAnzac Parade. A site for a new school, bounded by Paine Street in the north, and Walsh and O'Sullivan Avenue in the south, had been selected in 1945. This area was originally taken over by the Commonwealth Government for defence purposes. It was cleared as early as 1948 and preparations made for what was to be known as South Sydney Technical School. The building foundations were laid on 27 May 1950 by thenMinister for Education,Bob Heffron.

Due to long delays the first portion of the school was not ready until July 1952, with the school not being occupied until February 1953. On 5 April 1954,South Sydney Junior Technical High School was officially opened by theGovernor of New South Wales,Lieutenant-General Sir John Northcott.

At the beginning of 1959 it was decided that South Sydney Junior Technical High School would be renamedSouth Sydney Boys' High School, with the name taken from the reconstitutedMaroubra Bay High School nearby.^[3] The end of 1961 saw the retirement of the school's first principal, William Dutton. In his place Thomas Tasker, who was headmaster ofNorthmead High School, was appointed.^[4] In 1962 the annual school magazine, "Southerner", was published for the first time.^[5] That same year, in honour of the contribution made to the school by Heffron, the library was named the "R. J. Heffron Library".

In August 1980 the Minister for EducationPaul Landa announced that South Sydney Boys' High School andMaroubra Junction Girls High would be partly co-educational in 1981 and fully co-educational in 1983 to becomeSouth Sydney High School and Maroubra High School respectively. The site was briefly used as a location site for the2022 Netflix reboot of the television seriesHeartbreak High.

AHouse system was established by the early 1960s, dividing all students into four houses named after one representative from four main educational disciplines:

• Banks  – Science – named after botanist,Sir Joseph Banks.
• Dutton  – Education – named after the first headmaster, William Dutton.
• Lawson  – Literature – named after poet,Henry Lawson.
• Northcott  – Defence – named after the NSW Governor who opened the school,Sir John Northcott.

• Professor John BoyagesAM – 1975 DUX, Professor of Breast Oncology and Director of ALERT (Australian Lymphoedema Education Research and Treatment),Macquarie University.^[7]
• Tolu Latu – rugby union player and currentWaratah
• Adam Liberman – 1969 School Captain, General Counsel for theCSIRO and Visiting Professorial Fellow of theUNSW Faculty of Law.^[8]
• Col Loughnan – former member ofThe Delltones, andAyers Rock, and lecturer in saxophone at theSydney Conservatorium of Music since 1978.^[9]
• Alex Perry – fashion designer^[10]
• Tiana Penitani – rugby union player
• John Sutton – rugby league player forSouth Sydney Rabbitohs.^[11]
• Mike Whitney – former Australian Test Cricketer and television personality.^[12]
• Scott Wilson – rugby league player
• Macario De Souza – Australian filmmaker^[13]

• South Sydney High School Facebook page

• Public high schools in Sydney
• Maroubra, New South Wales
• School buildings completed in 1953
• Educational institutions established in 1953
• 1953 establishments in Australia

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