SCEGGS Darlinghurst
SCEGGS Darlinghurst is an independent Anglican single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Darlinghurst, an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Diana Bowman Performing Arts Centre at SCEGGS | |
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215 Forbes Street , , 2010 Australia | |
| Coordinates | 33°52′33″S 151°13′6″E |
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| Type | Independent single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school |
| Motto | Latin: Luceat Lux Vestra (Let Your Light Shine (Matthew 5:16)) |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Established | 1895 |
| Founder | Edith Badham |
| Educational authority | New South Wales Education Standards Authority |
| Chairman | Sharon Cook |
| Principal | Jenny Allum |
| Staff | ~127 |
| Years | K–12 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrolment | c. 900 (2019) |
| Colour(s) | Navy blue and white |
| Nickname | SCEGGS |
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| Website | www |
Founded in 1895 as the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School, the school's official name was changed to SCEGGS Darlinghurst in 1995. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 890 students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The school is regularly among the top-performing schools in New South Wales academically. While predominantly a day school, SCEGGS offers a small number of boarding places at St Vincent's College, Potts Point.
SCEGGS is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), and is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).
In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked SCEGGS Darlinghurst second in Australia's top ten girls' schools, based on the number of its alumnae mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians).[a]