Yanco Agricultural High School
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Coordinates: 34°38′07″S 146°23′00″E / 34.635415°S 146.383424°E Yanco Agricultural High School is a major co-educational agricultural secondary school located in the small town of Yanco in the Local Government Area of Leeton in south western New South Wales. The school is one of four agricultural high schools in New South Wales which include Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School in Tamworth in northern New South Wales, James Ruse Agricultural High School in western Sydney and Hurlstone Agricultural High School in south-western Sydney. The school was officially opened in 1922 and was the first school in New South Wales to have no day students. The school serves the south of New South Wales and Victoria with the other schools serving the other regions of the state. Yanco Agricultural High School is located approximately 10 kilometres from the Leeton CBD along Euroley Road.
YAHS has many traditions it follows. It also enjoys sport and plays around the district in school competitions, and in intertown competitions.
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[edit] Buildings and capacity
It has a capacity of over 340 students with 2009 most of the school full. It has a class block (known as "the Old Class block") because of its age. The classblock has eight classrooms, a science lab, a computer lab, the English staffroom, and the Maths staffroom. There is a Technical and Applied Studies block which contains a TAS staffroom, three classrooms, a cooking room, a computer lab, and at the end (a demountable) an ex-science lab, now used as a classroom. There are woodwork and metalwork rooms in a building known as the Hackey. There is another class block (known as "the New Classblock" or the "Brian Roberts Classblock"), which contains an Art/Music staffroom, HSIE staffroom, three classrooms, a music room, art rooms, and soon to be computer lab. There are offices in the historic McCaughy house.
There are five dormitory buildings (Mutch, Gardiner, Breakwell, Hindmarish, Mason) where students sleep; girls and boys are separated from access after certain times.
[edit] History
YAHS has big history with originally being a farm owned by Sir Samuel McCaughey (pronounced Mac-cak-ey). Sir McCaughey wanted it to become a school afterwards. Most of the land was sold off but over 200 acres were kept for the school. It was opened in 1922 but in that time students cleaned it up and made it fit for a school. The front building (McCaughey) is still there and is used as offices.
[edit] See also
- List of Government schools in New South Wales
- List of selective high schools in New South Wales
- List of boarding schools
[edit] External links
- Yanco Agricultural High School website
- NSW Department of Education and Training: Yanco Agricultural High School
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