Illawarra Sports High School
| Illawarra Sports High School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
Australia | |
| Coordinates | 34°28′49″S 150°51′13″E / 34.4803322°S 150.8536685°E |
| Information | |
| Former name | Berkeley High School (1956-1998) |
| Type | Government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school |
| Motto | Latin: Integer vitae (Blameless in Life) |
| Established | 1956 (as Berkeley High School) |
| School district | Illawarra North; Regional South |
| Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
| Specialist | Sports school |
| Principal | Gary Hampton |
| Teaching staff | 64.3 FTE (2018) |
| Years | 7–12 |
| Enrolment | 737 (2018) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Navy, light blue, white |
| Affiliation | NSW Sport High School Association |
| Website | illawaspor-h |
Illawarra Sports High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Berkeley, a southern suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1956 as the Berkeley High School, the school changed its name in 1998 in line with becoming a sports-oriented school. The Illawarra Sports High School caters for approximately 740 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 13 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 27 percent were from a language background other than English. The school draws the majority of its students from the southern Wollongong area; with an increasing number of students from the larger Illawarra area who access its specialist sports programs. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is Gary Hampton.
Illawarra Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association.