Robert Townson High School

Coordinates: 34°00′56″S 150°49′03″E / 34.01548°S 150.81751°E

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Robert Townson High School
Location

Thunderbolt Drive, Raby, South Western Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	34°00′56″S 150°49′03″E / 34.01548°S 150.81751°E / -34.01548; 150.81751
Information
Type	Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
Established	1987; 37 years ago (1987)
School district	St Andrews; Regional South
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Principal	Warren Parkes
Teaching staff	58.4 FTE (2018)^[1]
Years	7–12
Enrolment	727^[1] (2018)
Campus	Suburban
Colour(s)	Maroon, yellow and white
Website	roberttown-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
^[2]

Robert Townson High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located on Thunderbolt Drive in Raby, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1987 to meet the demands of the growing suburbs of Raby, St Andrews, Kearns, and Eschol Park, the school enrolled approximately 730 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom six percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 41 percent were from a language background other than English.^[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Warren Parkes.^[3]

History

Both the High School and adjacent Primary School take their name from Robert Townson, an English scholar and scientist who settled in Colonial New South Wales and was a local farmer and land owner.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Robert Townson High School, Raby, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
^ "Annual Report 2018" (PDF). Robert Townson High School. New South Wales Department of Education. 4 June 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "About our school". Robert Townson High School. New South Wales Department of Education. n.d. Retrieved 13 July 2019.

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