After considering the views of the community and teachers the department will develop a strategy to support secondary public education across all the public secondary schools in the eastern suburbs.

Upgrades for the facilities at Randwick Boys High School and the adjacent Randwick Girls High School will commence with a planning stage.

Key information

Key findings from the consultation

While the results of the online community survey supported the proposal to transition Randwick Boys High School to a co-educational secondary school, the views of families, students and staff who would be most directly impacted by the decision did not provide clear support for a change.

The community spoke very strongly about the need to retain the choice of a single-sex public high school for boys in the eastern suburbs, especially given that Randwick Boys High School is the only comprehensive public boys school in the area.

Another important theme to emerge from the consultation was that the community would like to see improvements to all public secondary schools in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The department will develop a strategy to support secondary public education across all the public secondary schools in the eastern suburbs.

Next steps

• Randwick Boys High School will remain a boys-only secondary school.
• The department will develop a strategy to support secondary public education across all the public secondary schools in the eastern suburbs.
• Upgrades for the facilities at Randwick Boys High School and the adjacent Randwick Girls High School will commence with a planning stage.

Community consultation

The consultation process ensured the department heard opinions from students, parents, teachers and representative groups such as the NSW Teachers Federation and the Secondary Principals Council.

During the consultation period:

• 40 school communities were heard
• more than 2,200 survey responses were received
• 96 emails were received to a dedicated Have Your Say email address
• information booths were open for a total of 30 hours at five shopping centres
• teachers and representative groups such as the NSW Secondary Principals Council and the NSW Teachers Federation had their say.