Orange High School (New South Wales)
Orange High School is a co-educational, secondary, public, day school located in Orange, a provincial city of New South Wales, Australia, 260 kilometres west of Sydney.
Founded in 1912, the school was the first state secondary school to be established in western New South Wales, and is one of two government secondary schools located in the city of Orange, the other being Canobolas Rural Technology High School.
Orange High School has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1100 students from Years 7 to 12. It is a school of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training (DET), and prepares students for the School Certificate (Year 10), and the Higher School Certificate (Year 12).
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