Kogarah High School O.D.  

Kogarah High School Timeline

1870	Kogarah Public School established in a church building (St Paul's Church of England)
1876	School moves to its present site and first building erected
1881	Public Instruction Act
1891	First two-storey school building erected, and School declared a Superior Public School
1911	State High School system begins
1913	Commercial and Domestic Science (Secondary) Departments established
1816	St George Girls' High established as a separate school
1920	Kogarah Boys' Intermediate High gazetted
1921	Three-storey building facing Regent Street is completed
1936	Kogarah Girl' Home Science School gazetted
1959	Home Science School renamed Kogarah Girls' High School
1962	Introduction of the Wyndham Scheme, and Intermediate High School renamed Kogarah Boys' High School
1963	Girls' and Boy' High Schools merge to form Kogarah High School Alan Dixon gathered and met deaf students in deaf primary schools southern and northern area
1964	Deaf unit classes being created for deaf students
1971	New library opened
1973	School fired burned most of the building
1974	Industrial arts block opened Diana and Lynette Sumner twin sisters first students to complete Year 11 schooling
1975	Sign language allowed to be used by the students in everyday conversation
1976	Assembly Hall opened
1978	Richard Hills first deaf student to complete Year 12 schooling
1979	Administration's block completed
1981	Sports girl of the year award - Julie Page deaf pupil on the Notice board in the Assembly Hall
1984	Deaf classes are mainstreamed into all hearing classes
1985	Interpreter first being used in the hearing classes setting got deaf students as a trail period for a year
1989	25th anniversary of Kogarah High School Deaf Unit
1997	Dux of School - Todd Wright first deaf pupil as dux of the school on the Notice board in the Assembly Hall
2014	50th anniversary of Kogarah High School Deaf Unit

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