# Bega High School

Bega High School is a NSW government secondary school in Bega, New South Wales, Australia.

- **Sector**: NSW government school
- **Type**: Secondary School
- **Gender**: Co-ed
- **Year levels**: Year 7 to Year 12
- **Enrolments**: 706 (2025)
- **Address**: Upper & Eden Sts, Bega NSW 2550
- **Phone**: (02) 6492 9000
- **Website**: https://bega-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
- **Email**: bega-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
- **ACARA AGE ID**: 50182
- **Established**: 1952-01-01

## About

Bega High School is a comprehensive rural secondary school situated in the beautiful Bega Valley, in the south-east of New South Wales. Catering to students from Year 7 to Year 12, the school proudly serves a diverse student body, which includes approximately 10% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, all hailing from Bega and its surrounding areas, including Quaama, Bermagui, Cobargo, Tathra, Candelo, and Bemboka.

## Curriculum and Opportunities
Students at Bega High School are offered a wide range of curriculum options, extra-curricular activities, and employment-related learning. This expansive selection empowers students to learn, cultivate skills, and discover their passions in various subjects including STEM, sports, and the creative arts. The school is one of two high schools in the Sapphire Coast Learning Community and collaborates closely with thirteen local primary schools, businesses, and educational institutions, including the University of Wollongong and TAFE NSW. 

## Values and Community Engagement
Bega High School prioritises the core values of respect, responsibility, and effort. It fosters a strong sense of community accountability and engagement with families, ensuring that every student feels safe, included, and valued from their very first day at school. The school actively encourages parental involvement through communication and collaborative planning to support student learning.

With a focus on academic achievement, personal development, and community service, Bega High School prepares its students to be skilled, compassionate citizens ready to participate positively in society.

## Mission

# Bega High School

Bega High School is committed to providing excellence in education which prepares students to positively contribute to society. We value improvement and growth through: Responsibility and high expectations for learning, behaviour and the environment in which we learn. Respect and pride for ourselves, each other and the environment. Effort and collaboration through positivity, resourcefulness and the continuous pursuit of improvement.

Motto: "Respect, Responsibility and Effort"

## Enrolment history

| Year | Enrolments |
| --- | --- |
| 2025 | 706 |
| 2024 | 731 |
| 2023 | 726 |
| 2022 | 676 |
| 2021 | 657 |
| 2020 | 648 |
| 2019 | 699 |
| 2018 | 736 |
| 2017 | 749 |
| 2016 | 791 |
| 2015 | 821 |
| 2014 | 872 |
| 2013 | 851 |
| 2012 | 918 |
| 2011 | 949 |
| 2010 | 993 |
| 2009 | 1,000 |
| 2008 | 1,032 |

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Source: SchoolAtlas (https://www.schoolatlas.com.au/schools/50182-bega-high-school), compiled from ACARA and NSW Department of Education data, reference year 2025. SchoolAtlas does not rank schools.