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Lismore High Campus, is a school located in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, on Dalley Street, East Lismore. It runs as a collaborative effort between two other Lismore high schools, Richmond River Campus and Kadina High Campus. Together the three schools form the Rivers Secondary College. It is a co-educational high school operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training with students from years 7 to 12. The school was established in 1920.History and campusThe first site of LHS was on Lake Street, North Lismore . On 23 November 1918, the foundation stone was laid for the new high school building by the Member for Lismore, George Nesbitt. At the time of its establishment in January 1920, it was one of only five high schools outside the Sydney metropolitan area. It served the Richmond River area and until 1929 with the opening of Murwillumbah High School, was the only high school between Grafton and the Queensland border.The Chinese-Australian journalist Vivian Chow Yung attended LHS in its beginning years. Told in 1923 by an Irish-Australian schoolteacher at LHS "You are Australian now. Why worry so much about China? What does China mean to you?", Chow responded "Sir, you were born in Australia, but you are always telling us about Home Rule for Ireland. What does Ireland mean to you?"