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.
Established in 1929, the school enrolled approximately 1,080 students in 2018, 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; the principal is Nathan Towney. At the end of Year 12, successful students are accredited with their NSW Higher School Certificate.

History

Newcastle High School, which began in 1976, is the last of three 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.

Ravens

Newcastle High has a large population of ravens and the students hold the birds in high regard. By the students, both past and present, ravens are a symbol of their teen years and are regarded as a mascot for the school.

Notable alumni

Newcastle Girls' High School