Nowra High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Nowra, in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1956, the school enrolled approximately 910 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom eleven percent identified as Indigenous Australians and seven percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the Principal is Renee Gilbert. The school motto is "Wisdom Through Knowledge".
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Overview
On 17 May 2007 the Governor-General hosted a meeting in the school with indigenous students from the city's high schools.
Notable alumni
Anna Bligh – a former politician and Premier of Queensland who spent the last six months of her schooling at Nowra High
Fiona Phillips – federal MP
Karen Phillips- Olympic swimmer
Maddy Collier- AFLW player
Notable former staff
Brian McGowan – a teacher during the 1960s; and a former member of the NSW Legislative Assembly