Hunter's Hill High School (HHHS) is a public, secondary, co-educational, day school, located in Hunter's Hill, a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on the Lane Cove River, near the Figtree Bridge.
Established in 1958, HHHS was the first co-educational high school in Sydney. Today the school is a comprehensive high school catering for approximately 585 students from Years 7 to 12, with most residi...
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Hunter's Hill High School (HHHS) is a public, secondary, co-educational, day school, located in Hunter's Hill, a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on the Lane Cove River, near the Figtree Bridge.
Established in 1958, HHHS was the first co-educational high school in Sydney. Today the school is a comprehensive high school catering for approximately 585 students from Years 7 to 12, with most residing in the inner western suburbs and lower North Shore.
Hunter's Hill High School is a school of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training (DET), and prepares students for the School Certificate (Year 10), and the Higher School Certificate (Year 12).
The first Principal, Mr. J.S.Rae, was responsible for the initial intake of 368 students and a staff of twenty. In Form 1, the equivalent of Year 7 today, classes went from 1A to 1M with as many as 48 students to a class.
The school colours chosen were two shades of blue and grey...
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