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YANCO Agricultural High School is a co-educational, fully residential high school, specialising in agriculture.
The school provides a quality secondary education in a historic rural setting.
Located in the NSW Riverina the school has a proud tradition of promoting positive values and developing confident, capable and community-minded students.
The school is a selective government school with priority given to isolated students.
This educational institution provides a broad, well balanced education.
The school has 280 hectares, including 180ha of intensive irrigation and dry land agriculture, as well as 60ha of natural bushland bordered by the Murrumbidgee River.
With state-of-the-art resources, farm and hostel, the school provides an all-round education for students in a stimulating and caring environment.
The school focuses on the development of the whole person through the curriculum, extracurricular activities and residential experiences, ensuring that students become well equipped to take their place in life.
In addition to the study of agriculture in Years 7 to 12, the school offers junior and senior courses in equine studies, and five Industry Framework Vocational Education Training courses. The technology and applied science area is well resourced to provide students with the opportunity to produce major works of considerable magnitude.
The school has a White Suffolk sheep stud and Shorthorn and Limousin cattle studs, which focus on breeding high-performing, commercially relevant animals and utilise technologies such as electronic identification, genomics and artificial insemination to educate students on sheep and cattle production and marketing.
On school grounds students have access to tennis courts, a gymnasium, swimming pool, 10ha of sporting ovals, after-hours library and resource centre.
Students are encouraged to develop responsible leadership, personal integrity and sportsmanship and to strive for excellence in academic, cultural, sporting and civic endeavours, in an environment conducive to learning, teaching and friendship.