Fairfield High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Fairfield, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1955 through the merge of two adjacent single-sex high schools: Fairfield Boys High School and Fairfield Girls High School, the school caters for approximately 1,100 students from Year 7 to Year 12. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education.
Fairfield High School offers a comprehensive education in a coeducational setting following the NSW curriculum. It contains an Intensive English Centre which caters for newly arrived students from overseas. The school provides for the needs of these students on entry into the Australian high school setting. The school's library features two computer labs for full classes where students can use before school, at
lunch period and via the Homework Club. The Fairfield High School building is also used for adult education classes through MacArthur Community College.
Fairfield is one of the most densely populated suburbs in Sydney containing residents from all over the world. The community is one of the most multicultural communities in Sydney.
Demographics
The school has a Family Occupation Employment Index (FOEI) of 183. The school is diverse with 93.5% of students from a language background other than English (mainly from Syria, Iraq, Vietnam and the Pacific Islands) and 1% are from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. 40% of students need some level of English as an Additional Language or Dialect support (EAL/D). About 50% of students come from a refugee background.
See also
- List of government schools in New South Wales
- Education in Australia