Gymea Technology High School

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Gymea Technology High School

Motto:	Erudio pro Posterus Educating for the Future ^{[citation needed]}
Contact Information:	Phone: 9521 3244 Fax: 9545 1540
Established:	1963
Type:	Comprehensive Secondary
Principal:	Mr J Bedwell
Deputy Principals:	Mrs L Edwards Mr I. Gowan
Enrolement:	667 students
Location:	Hotham Road & Princes Highway, Gymea 2227 Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Region:	Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney
Grades:	Year 7 to Year 12
School Colours:	Red & Shamrock Green
E-Mail:	gymea-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
Website:	www.gymea-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Gymea Technology High School (or more commonly known by its acronym, GTHS) is located on the Princes Highway in the suburb of Gymea, in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, next to Gymea TAFE. It is a technology oriented, public and co-educational high school in New South Wales. Gymea Technology High School achieves above average marks in both the School Certificate (SC) and the Higher School Certificate (HSC). It has been recognised as an outstanding school in technology by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training and Apple Computer. Gymea Technology High School also performs well in many other academic activities, such as public speaking, debating, sport and UNSW school competitions.

GTHS was opened in 1963 and has been a technology oriented secondary school since its doors opened. Until 2005, the average number of students each year who achieved a UAI over 90 was 3. Then after the 2005 HSC, 12 students achieved UAIs over 90, ranging from 90.05 to 98.80.^{[citation needed]} This record breaking result for GTHS set the bar high for the class of 2006, who have been consistently working hard to live up to the class of 2005.

[edit] School Site

Aerial view of GTHS.

Gymea students under the school noticeboard.

More than half the area of the school site is devoted to playing fields and tennis courts. Recent AU$800,000 renovations have seen the surface of the quadrangle resurfaced and other facilities improved.

In 2001, a group of vandals threw a petrol bomb into the main office, destroying a number of rooms and putting an entire block out of commission for almost a year. The entire main office was refurbished and the building was stabilised during that time, however, the office staff were forced to work in a series of demountables set up near the entrance to the school.