Ashwood High School


Ashwood High School is a coeducational public school located in Ashwood, Victoria, Australia.
Ashwood offers a wide range of academic subjects and in 2016 introduced an Accelerated Curriculum and Enrichment Program. This program is unique in that it is the only secondary school in the seat of Burwood with an accelerated learning program. Recently the curriculum has expanded to include an extensive arts programme. The school was recently also allowed a grant to rebuild the majority of the classroom facilities throughout the school. This includes the Middle School Centre, as well as the Senior School, which opened in 2016.

History

Jordanville Technical School was the first secondary school located in the area and it opened in 1954, followed by Ashwood High School in 1958. Ashwood College was formed in 1988 from the merger of Ashwood High School and Jordanville Technical School. The new school was located on the High School site, while the Technical School site, across the road, was eventually redeveloped for housing in 1993.
Ashwood High School was renamed 'Ashwood High School' in 2016. Notification of the name change appeared in the Victoria Government Gazette No. G3 Thursday 21 January 2016.

House system

The School uses a house system to group students, based on colours and the historic people on the $10 $20, $50, $100. And the corresponding colour of the bank note is used to determine the colour:
Students are sorted randomly into houses on the first day in Year 7.