Clarence High School is a co-educational state high school

High school

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 located in Bellerive

Bellerive, Tasmania

Bellerive is a suburb of the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area, Tasmania, Australia. It stretches from Kangaroo Bay where it borders Rosny Park, around the curved shoreline of Bellerive Esplanade to Kangaroo Bluff, then down to Bellerive Beach and east to Second Bluff, where...

, a riverside suburb of greater Hobart

Hobart

Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

, the capital of the island state Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

, in Australia

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. The school has students in grades 7 to 10.

The school was the first comprehensive state secondary school on the eastern shore of Hobart, opening in 1959.

Numerous students of the school have become celebrities or sports stars, including Heath Neville, who now plays for the Melbourne Demons

Melbourne Football Club

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 AFL club and brothers Tom Woodberry, a poet

Poet

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 and crimping performer and James Woodberry, a singer and guitarist

Guitarist

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The school contains a gymnasium, cricket nets, Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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 oval, soccer field and a beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

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court.

Clarence High School has four houses; Flynn, Gilmore, Mawson, and Nightingale.