Cleveland Street Intensive English High School is a High School

High school

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 located in the inner-Sydney

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 suburb of Surry Hills, New South Wales

Surry Hills, New South Wales

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, Australia

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. The school was founded in 1856, and was a general high school until 1977, when the school was moved to Alexandria

Alexandria, New South Wales

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 and later renamed Alexandria Park Community School

Alexandria Park Community School

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. It is one of the oldest public schools in Australia still operating on its site. The site on Cleveland Street

Cleveland Street, Sydney

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 was then reworked as an annex of the school for newly arrived immigrants into Australia, then into its current form as an intensive English-language high school in 2001.