August 5, 2026 — 7:30pm

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Inside her office in the 1960s Castle Hill High School building in Sydney’s north-west, principal Georgina Cuthbertson can hear the school landlines ringing in the front office.

And who might be calling? Parents, she says, all trying to apply to enrol their children at the school.

“I’d probably knock back 15 a week,” she says.

The school can’t take any more students beyond its catchment – it has 1845 pupils and 51 demountables scattered over its campus.

Cuthbertson attributes the unrelenting enrolment demand to the…

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