Mount Austin High School
Mount Austin High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Wagga Wagga, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1964, the school enrolled approximately 429 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 45 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 8 percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; and the acting principal is Michelle Waugh.
Notable alumni
- Adam Mullavey, detector controls engineer at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, involved in the first observation of gravitational waves.
- Mark Taylor (cricketer), cricketer
See also
- List of government schools in New South Wales: G–P
- List of schools in the Riverina
- Education in Australia
References
- ^ "Our staff". Mount Austin High School. NSW Department of Education. n.d. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Mount Austin High School, Wagga Wagga, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Shuhyta, Benjamin (12 February 2016). "Former Wagga boy part of gravitational wave discovery". Australia: ABC News. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
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