Caringbah High School
Location: Caringbah, Sydney
We are a coeducational selective high school in Southern Sydney.
How has your school used its Gonski funding?
Towards learning support staff and chaplaincy.
How has Gonski made a positive difference for students?
By providing individual support to students in both a learning capacity and in the area of mental health.
What could your school do with Gonski funding in the future?
Employee a full time learning support teacher.
It has a diverse student population of around 1,100, with a third of the school’s students in the two lowest SES quartiles. Indigenous students make up 6 per cent of the school population and a further 6 per cent of students are from non-English speaking backgrounds.
Katoomba High School, a comprehensive secondary school in the Blue Mountains of NSW, has an enrolment of about 670 students about half of whom are from low-income backgrounds.