The Hills Grammar School

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The Hills Grammar School
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Motto: “Strive for Excellence'
Established	1983
Type	Independent non-sectarian co-educational primary and secondary school
Principal	Robert J. Phipps
Students	1200
Grades	K–12
Location	Kenthurst, NSW Australia
Campus	45 acres
Website	/http://www.hillsgrammar.com.au

The Hills Grammar School is a non-sectarian school located in Kenthurst in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1983 by the Mr Ross Booth independent non-selective, co-educational and non-denominational Kindergarten to Year 12 school. The founder, Mr Ross Booth, worked tirelessly to enlist support for the establishment of the School and in 1982 the Founding Council was formed. The site was found and a number of prospective parents stood guarantor to the bank loan which purchased the land. ^{[citation needed]} In 1983, with 163 Foundation students enrolled from Kindergarten to Year 9 and with 14 academic staff, the School opened its doors. The first Principal (appointed from Geelong College) was Mr Michael van Heeswyk. The school has since grown with approximately around 1200 students.

The school is located amongst natural bushland on the side of a gully and offers a unique bushland learning environment.

1 School Motto
2 Mission Statement
3 Notable Alumni
4 Criticisms
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] School Motto

The schools school motto is the phrase, "Strive for Excellence”

[edit] Mission Statement

“The mission of the School is to provide a supportive, co-educational learning environment where each student is encouraged to strive for excellence in scholarships, personal achievement and citizenship.”

[edit] Notable Alumni

Delta Goodrem

Andrew Hansen

Nicholas Robinson

Andrew Pintado

Sanjeev Aksinjurkabad

Ben Sage

[edit] Criticisms

Despite receiving notably larger amounts of money from the federal government than local public schools, rather than lowering its fees to provide a more available service to the wider community, the school has increased it's fees exponentially to just under that of the notorious Kings school. It has been claimed that because of this, the private school is a business first and an educator second.