Karabar is a suburb of Queanbeyan, New South Wales

Queanbeyan, New South Wales

Queanbeyan is a regional centre in the Southern Tablelands in south-eastern New South Wales adjacent to the Australian Capital Territory. The city's mixed economy is based on light construction, high technology, manufacturing, service, retail and agriculture. It is the council seat of the...

. It is at the southern part of the developed area of Queanbeyan—-bordering the suburbs of Queanbeyan East

Queanbeyan East, New South Wales

East Queanbeyan is one of Queanbeyan's newly proclaimed suburbs, lying on the north eastern side of the Queanbeyan River, with the river forming its western boundary...

, Jerrabomberra, Googong

Googong, New South Wales

Googong is a suburb of Queanbeyan, New South Wales, and a parish of the County of Murray located to the south of Queanbeyan. Googong contains the developed areas of Fernleigh Park, Little Burra and Mount Campbell Estate. It borders Jerrabomberra and Karabar on the north and Environa on the west...

 and Queanbeyan. The eastern border of the suburb is defined by the Queanbeyan River

Queanbeyan River

The Queanbeyan River is a tributary of the Molonglo River and part of Murray-Darling Basin. The river is 70 kilometres in length and the river catchment is 96,000 hectares in size...

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As well as a shopping centre it contains netball courts, several ovals and a public high and primary schools. It is dominated by Mount Jerrabomberra, which overlooks the suburb. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...

, Karabar had a population of 8,680 people.

The Karabar High School and Distance Education Centre is a state public high school for years 7 to 12, located in Karabar.

The distance education centre serves students who are unable to attend school because of geographic isolation, illness, vocational talent, religious and other reasons, in the southern part of NSW as well as Australians living overseas and students from smaller private and state high schools that are unable to offer specialist subjects such as languages, extension mathematics and software design and development.

The high school provides education for students in academic, vocational and employment streams leading to the award of the NSW Higher School Certificate. A specialist program for gifted and talented students called the Selective Extension Program draws students from throughout the district and the ACT. The Karabar marching band, "The Namadgi Redbacks" tours internationally every two years.

The Primary School, Queanbeyan South is over the fence from Karabar High. Queanbeyan South is a public school for pre-school to year 6.