The Northern Beaches Secondary College (abbreviated as NBSC) is a multi-campus government-funded co-educational dual-modality partially selective and comprehensive secondary day school, located on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The College was established 2003 through the merger and restructure of six existing campuses located in the northern beaches region. The College caters for approximately 4,800 students from Year 7 to Year 12. The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is Dane Ropa, who leads the College. Campuses The five campuses that comprise the Northern Beaches Secondary College, are: Balgowlah Boys Campus, a single-sex comprehensive secondary school for boys only, from Year 7 to Year 12; Cromer Campus, a co-educational comprehensive secondary school, from Year 7 to Year 12; Freshwater Senior Campus, a co-educational senior secondary school, from Year 11 to Year 12; Mackellar Girls Campus, a single-sex comprehensive secondary school for girls only, from Year 7 to Year 12; and Manly Selective Campus, a co-educational, selective secondary school, from Year 7 to Year 12. History The establishment of the Northern Beaches Secondary College resulted from a review of secondary education, conducted by the Northern Beaches Secondary Principals Council, in 1999. The Secondary Education Review Committee was set up to investigate and report on the provision of secondary education in the Northern Beaches District. Representatives from all stakeholders, secondary and primary schools, parents, the NSW Teachers Federation, Department of Education and Training, the District P&C Association and Technical and Further Education (TAFE), were invited to be part of this committee. The Committee conducted a district wide review of secondary education which resulted in over 50 submissions from individuals, groups and stakeholder. These were submitted to the Committee in December, 1999. From these submissions the Committee then developed a series of recommendations which forwarded to the Department of Education and Training. The Department, in consultation with the District, developed a model for the restructuring of secondary education in the lower peninsula area of the Northern Beaches. This model was launched in June 2000, by the then Minister for Education and Training, the Hon. John Aquilina, under the name of New Horizons. The model proposed by the Department saw six of the existing 7 - 12 high schools restructured as a multi-campus College. The six existing high schools were: Balgowlah Boys High Schoolboys only; Year 7 - 12 Beacon Hill High Schoolco-educational; Year