Gulgong High School is a comprehensive high school located in a diverse rural setting. The schools focus is 'Quality Teaching and Learning in a Safe, Caring Environment'. Students are drawn from the immediate rural and urban surroundings and from various walks of life. There is a divergent range of abilities among the students. The school caters for this divergence by creating a wide choice of curriculum that is both academic and vocationally based. The school offers a range of one year, two year and vertically-integrated curriculum structures in the junior school to allow a great deal of flexibility and choice that encourages engagement of students in learning. For a small school, Gulgong High School offers a particularly wide range of student electives in both the junior and senior school and enjoys small class sizes in all senior courses and many junior courses. All students are encouraged to strive to achieve at their optimal level and effective student welfare programs are at the forefront of supportive structures to this end. The school has specific Boys Education and Girls Education programs that support students to better engage in learning at school and beyond. Gulgong High School has recently achieved outstanding success in a range of national and state wide sporting and academic competitions. The school was the regional winner of the Great Schools Show Off Competition and was the best performing public school in Australia in the 'Live Below the Line' international poverty awareness program. Students at the school have been awarded several distinctions and high distinctions in national and international academic competitions with one student placed third in Australia in the National Economics and Business Studies Competition. Each year Gulgong High School has many students who represent Western Region and beyond in a range of team and individual sports. Gulgong High School provides an exceptional creative and performing arts curriculum and there is a large number of students who access this learning..