New South Wales Premier Chris Minns and Education Minister Prue Car have urged students to stay in class, echoing calls from the federal government.
The rally is expected to take place at 1.30pm in the Sydney CBD, though without official approval gained for a protest, students will be confined to the footpaths.
Police are expected to be out in force.
Labor Party president and former federal treasurer Wayne Swan said on Today that the protests would likely not be a "dramatic" event.
"Students should be at school. If they want to protest, they should be doing it outside of school hours," he said.
He warned of "fringe groups" involved with the event and called for respect "from all sides".
"These are very difficult issues," he said.
"They don't need to be inflamed by some of the stories we have seen in the media this morning."
Melbourne's rally yesterday attracted hundreds of students to Flinders St and Melbourne Central.
Students donned traditional Palestinian headdresses and wore Palestinian flags over their shoulders, taking to the streets with powerful chants and handmade signs.
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"We have come out today, people have left school en masse, to say that business as usual can't continue when Palestinians are being slaughtered in their thousands," one protestor with a megaphone said.
Fowler MP Dai Le played down the spectre of student activism.
"I think that absolutely they should be at school, but, you know, children have the right to express their opinions and they're at an age now where they can have that say," she told Today.
"I don't know, missing out one day of school probably will be okay from my perspective. It is part of an education process anyway."
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