Merrylands High School is a coeducation

Coeducation

Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...

al, comprehensive high school

High school

High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 in Merrylands

Merrylands, New South Wales

Merrylands is a suburb in western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Merrylands is located 25 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of Holroyd...

, a suburb in Western Sydney

Western Sydney

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, New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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The school has an enrolment of 800 students; 62% of students come from language backgrounds other than English and over 50 cultures are represented at the school. The school's current principal is Ms Lila Mularczyk. The school was established in the year 1959. The school supports two satellite classes from the Holroyd School for Special Purposes (SSP).

Famous alumni

Musician Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield is an Australian-born singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States...

attended Merrylands High School briefly during the 1960s.

2008 Machete attacks

On April 7, 2008 a group of youths, who were armed with baseball bats, samurai swords and machetes rampaged through the school corridors at 8.50 in the morning Sydney time. The youths smashed school windows into pieces and assaulted one male and one female student during the attack. During the incident a male teacher trying to restrain the offenders was hit over the head and taken to hospital.The exact motive for the attacks is unknown but police do suggest that this attack might have been a retribution.