Willoughby Girls High School

Willoughby Girls' High School
Logo wghs Courage, Loyalty, Truth
Location
Willoughby, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates
Information
Type	Public, Single-sex, Secondary, Day school
Established	1934
Principal	Ms. Diprose
Enrolment	~931 (7–12)
Campus	Suburban
Colour(s)	Navy blue and white
Website	www.wghs.nsw.edu.au

Willoughby Girls' High School (WGHS) is a public, secondary, day school for girls, located in Willoughby, a lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1934, Willoughby Girls' High currently enrols around 931 students from Years 7 to 12, and is the only comprehensive government girls' school situated on the lower north shore of Sydney.

Facilities and activities

Willoughby Girls High School has a variety of facilities for students, including tennis courts, a playing field, library, senior study rooms, canteen, science labs, computer labs, design and technology rooms, music studio, art rooms, a senior dark room and landscaped courtyards. The school has a wide variety of after school or extracurricular activities available for students. The school has also been providing extension classes for the last nine years in Maths, English and Science for those girls with higher marks, who must sit a test to earn their place each year.

Alumni

• Evonne Goolagong (born 1951), tennis player.
• Jeni Mawter (born 1959), children's author.
• Yvonne Kenny (born 1950), opera singer.
• Jo Haylen , NSW MP for seat of Summer Hill for the Australian Labor Party, elected 2015.

See also

• List of Government schools in New South Wales

External links

• Willoughby Girls High School Website
• NSW Department of Education and Training: WGHS