Alexandria Park Community School


Alexandria Park Community School is a government-funded partially selective comprehensive co-educational secondary and primary day school, located at Park Road,, an inner city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in December 2001 with the merger of Cleveland Street High School, the school enrolled approximately 800 students in 2018, from Year K to Year 12, of whom 18 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 58 percent were from a language background other than English. Administratively, the school is organised as a junior school, a middle school and senior school. Opportunity classes are delivered in Year 5 and Year 6 as well as a selective stream in Year 7 to Year 12 for academically gifted and talented students. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education in accordance with a curriculum developed by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority; and the principal is Diane Fetherston.

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The Cleveland Street High School was formerly located on Cleveland Street in Surry Hills prior to its move to the current Alexandria Park School site in 1982. The Cleveland Street site became an annex to the school specialising in intensive English education, known as Cleveland Street Intensive English High School. In December 2001, Waterloo High School and Cleveland Street High School amalgamated on the site to become Alexandria Park Community School. From 1 January 2003 the school expanded with the amalgamation of Redfern Public School, Waterloo Public School, Alexandria Public School into the new Community School.
Until 2017, the junior school was located at the Park St Campus, and the senior school was located at the Mitchell Road Campus.
In 2017 the senior school relocated into temporary buildings at the Park St Campus, with the intention that the Mitchell Road Campus would be occupied by the Cleveland Street Intensive English High School, freeing up the Cleveland Street site for a new 14 story 'vertical high school'.
In 2018, the Cleveland Street Intensive English High School also moved to the site, pending the rebuild of the Mitchell Road campus which completed in 2019.