SCEGGS Darlinghurst
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SCEGGS Darlinghurst is an independent Anglican single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Darlinghurst, an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
SCEGGS Darlinghurst | |
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215 Forbes Street , , 2010 Australia | |
Coordinates | 33°52′33″S 151°13′6″E |
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Type | Independent single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school |
Motto | Latin: Luceat Lux Vestra (Let Your Light Shine (Matthew 5:16)) |
Denomination | Anglicanism |
Established | 1895; 129 years ago (1895) |
Founder | Edith Badham |
Educational authority | New South Wales Education Standards Authority |
Chairman | Sharon Cook |
Principal | Jenny Allum |
Staff | ~127[1] |
Years | K–12 |
Gender | Girls |
Enrolment | c. 900[1] (2019) |
Colour(s) | Navy blue and white |
Nickname | SCEGGS |
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Website | www |
Founded in 1895 as the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School, the school's official name was changed to SCEGGS Darlinghurst in 1995. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 890 students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The school is regularly among the top-performing schools in New South Wales academically.[1] While predominantly a day school, SCEGGS offers a small number of boarding places at St Vincent's College, Potts Point.
SCEGGS is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),[2] the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),[3] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA),[4] and is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).[5]
In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked SCEGGS Darlinghurst second in Australia's top ten girls' schools, based on the number of its alumnae mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians).[6][a]