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Cleveland Street High School

Location: 244 Cleveland Street, Surry Hills
Cleveland Street High School
Students at the entrance to Cleveland Street High School (photograph courtesy NSW Department of Education and Training)

A number of private and public schools in Sydney’s inner-city suburbs have provided primary education for Aboriginal people.

Cleveland Street High School has educated generations of Redfern and Waterloo children since it was established in 1867. Originally the school provided only primary education, but in 1913 offered secondary education as well, becoming a boy’s high school in 1956.

 

Laila Ellmoos