Gorokan High School
Gorokan High School, established 1976, is a co-educational comprehensive school for local students and is academically selective, accepting sixty outstanding students annually through the Selective Schools Placement Test. The first Year 7 selective class commenced in 2010. Gorokan also has two support units for students with special needs. Gorokan High provides a caring learning environment for more than 1000 students. Gorokan High is currently supported through the Priority Schools Program and the Schools in Partnership Program. It embraces the 'Stronger Smarter' philosophy, emphasising the strengths of Aboriginal identity, culture and positive academic achievement for its twelve per cent Aboriginal population. It enjoys a strong regional reputation for its cultural leadership and partnerships with its local Aboriginal community and AECG, Muru Bulbi. Gorokan High's core values are respect, cooperation, personal best and empowerment through learning. The school focuses on the needs of individual students by providing a broad-based curriculum of vocational, creative courses and academic courses, gifted and talented student programs and personal, social and ethical development programs. It has a strong tradition of HSC success for its students.
We recognise the Ongoing Custodians of the lands and waterways where we work and live. We pay respect to Elders past and present as ongoing teachers of knowledge, songlines and stories. We strive to ensure every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learner in NSW achieves their potential through education.