Cabramatta High School

Cabramatta High School is the local high school of Cabramatta, an urbanised suburb located in south-west Sydney, Australia. The school was established in 1958 as the suburb's first high school. It has attracted much undue negative publicity in the last decade over sensationalised media reports that drug and gang-related crimes were directly linked to Cabramatta High School students. Despite this dark history, Cabramatta High School is becoming increasingly popular within the region, with impressive records of academic and practical successful students, mostly achieving grade-averages higher than most other schools in the local area. Well-known for its multiculturalism, Cabramatta High School consists of a very diverse range of students and staff, with majority coming from non-English speaking backgrounds, predominantly Vietnamese and Chinese. Cabramatta High School has been praised by many people in the public for its great diversity of students with the great conception of multiculturalism and peace of many different cultures in enabling an enjoyable location to learn.The school created a Peace garden as a memorial to student's families history going through the war, it was broadcast as a documentary on ABC channel Australia.The ACO (Australian Chamber Orchestra) in late 2005 chose Cabramatta High School as the first school to be in their new education program.On the 25th of October, 2006, the school was selected as the first school in South-West Sydney to have an RAP (Respect Acceptance Participation) Day for student representatives from secondary school and Intensive English Centres across South Western Sydney Region.