Lurnea High School

Lurnea High School
Lurnea High School
Location
	Lurnea, South Western Sydney, New South Wales; Australia
Coordinates	33°56′32″S 150°53′45″E / 33.94222°S 150.89583°ECoordinates: 33°56′32″S 150°53′45″E / 33.94222°S 150.89583°E
Information
Type	Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
Motto	Truth through reason
Established	1965; 57 years ago
School district	Liverpool
Educational authority	New South Wales Department of Education
Principal	Tracey Cross
Teaching staff	76.1 FTE (2018)
Years	7-12
Enrolment	648 (2018)
Campus type	Suburban
Website	lurnea-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Lurnea High School (abbreviated as LHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school located in Lurnea, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1965, the school caters for approximately 650 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom four percent identified as Indigenous Australians and eighty percent were from a language background other than English.^[1] The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; and the current principal is Tracey Cross and was formerly Jenny Holland.^[3]

Overview[]

An Intensive English Centre and Hearing Impaired Unit are also established at Lurnea High School. Lurnea High School also has numerous science, art and home economics classrooms. It also has many Interactive White Boards (Smartboards).

The school logo of Lurnea High School is a platypus.