Newcastle High School (Australia)


Newcastle High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Newcastle West, a suburb of Newcastle, in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia.
Newcastle High School was established in 1976, following the dismantling of the single-sex selective school system. In 2018 the school enrollment numbered approximately 1,080 students, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom nine percent identified as Indigenous Australians and nine percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education in accordance with the education curriculum, as determined by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority. Newcastle High School has one of the largest Special Education Unit in the Entire Hunter Region. As of October 2020 the principal is Janene Rosser.

History

Newcastle High School is the last of several schools that shared a similar and sometimes common history:
The school occupies the campuses previously occupied by two girls' high schools: Hunter Girls' High School and Newcastle Girls' High School. The campus of Newcastle Boys' High School became non-selective and co-educational in 1977 and changed its name to Waratah High School that same year. Later it became Waratah Technology High School, then Callaghan College Waratah Technology Campus. Prior to the 1989 establishment of Merewether High School as a co-educational academically selective school, students from Newcastle High School consistently enjoyed considerable academic success at both School Certificate and Higher School Certificate examinations.

Notable alumni

Newcastle Girls' High School

Newcastle High School (1976–present)