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Formal committees often compare venues on looks first, but the deciding questions are practical: can the room seat every student and teacher at tables, is there floor space left for dancing, and does the catering suit a sit-down meal at a ticket price families will accept. The Central Coast venues listed here answer those questions in quite different ways.
The Gallery @ Gosford RSL Club in West Gosford is built for scale. Its capacity runs anywhere from 10 to 650 guests, and partitions create up to five separate rooms, soundproofed and each fitted with AV – so dinner can sit in one hall while another holds the dance floor or a photo corner. Menus come as a banquet, a buffet or cocktail food, the bar is the club's own and parking is on site.
Out at Forresters Beach, The Olive Grove brings a Hamptons look and caters in-house. Its Grand Ballroom holds as many as 200, The Captain's Table suits up to 70, and a courtyard runs off both, letting the night spill outdoors. Menus are priced per head: two-course set menus from $60 per person, or canapés from $35 per person.
Matching the room to the cohort:
Once the room is booked, the school formal page covers arrivals and the rest of the night.

Yes. The events centre at The Gallery @ Gosford RSL Club takes as many as 650 under one roof.
At The Gallery @ Gosford RSL Club, yes – the space partitions into up to five soundproofed rooms, each with AV, so the meal and the dance floor can be kept apart.
The Olive Grove's in-house caterers price two-course set menus from $60 per person, and canapés from $35 per person.
The Olive Grove at Forresters Beach, where a courtyard runs off its rooms so guests can step outside from either the ballroom or the smaller room.
The Olive Grove is at Forresters Beach, with a ballroom for as many as 200 and The Captain's Table for groups up to 70.