Engadine High School

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Engadine High School is a public, co-educational high school in Engadine, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It serves students from years 7 to 12 and operates under the New South Wales Department of Education. The school opened in 1969 to meet the area’s growing population and sits on Porter Road in a suburban setting. About 1,200 students attend, and the school colours are blue, white and gold. The mascot is Toadie and the school newspaper is The Flannel Flower (published monthly). The motto is Dream, Believe, Succeed (the original motto was To find and not to yield). The principal is Kerrie Jones.

Engadine High has won several Director-General’s Awards: Excellence in Performing Arts in 2002, Consolidating a Strong Learning Culture in 2004, and Outstanding Linkages Program with Primary Schools in 2006. The school celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2009.

There have been some notable incidents: in 2013, a dispute over invitations to the Year 10 formal involving students from a support unit; the school said invitations were managed by Year 10 students and parents and that support unit students had invitations. In early 2018, some parents and students criticized Principal Kerrie Jones for comments about sexual violence and the length of female skirts.