Warilla High School


Warilla High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Barrack Heights, a suburb of the City of Shellharbour, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1965, the school caters for approximately 1,250 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom eight percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 16 percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is John Hambly.

Overview

The school is located in the suburb of Barrack Heights and there were suggestions of renaming the school to reflect the change in primary feeder schools. In early to late 2009 Warilla High underwent a major reconstruction with the funding of six new Science Labs. The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015.
As of 2010 Warilla High School had an enrolment of over 1,200 students making it one of the largest high schools in the region.

Principals

The following individuals has served as principal of Warilla High School:
OrdinalOfficeholderTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
1Gordon Dunbar Brown19661972 years
2William John Leyshon19731978 years
3Maxwel Matthew Weir Cooper19791983 years
4Desmond John Murphy19841990 years
5Alan John Petersen19912003 years
6John Hambly20042008 years
7Glen Isemonger20092011 years
8Jeff Jacobs20122012 years
John Hambly2012incumbent years