| Wellington High School & Community Education Centre Māori: Te Kura Tuarua o Taraika ki Pukeahu | |
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| Address | |
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249 Taranaki Street , 6011 | |
| Coordinates | 41°18′03″S 174°46′29″E / 41.3009°S 174.7748°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State secondary |
| Motto | Excellence in Learning |
| Established | 1886 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 273 |
| Chairman | David Cooling |
| Principal | Dominic Killalea |
| Grades | 9–13 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| School roll | 1630[1] (August 2024) |
| Socio-economic decile | 9Q[2] |
| Website | www |
Wellington High School is a co-educational secondary school in the CBD of Wellington, New Zealand. It has a role of approximately 1500 students. It was founded in 1886 as the Wellington College of Design (later the Wellington Technical School), to provide a more practical education than that offered by the existing schools. In 1905 it became the first coeducational daytime Technical College in New Zealand.[3] It is one of only two coeducational secondary schools in Wellington (along with Onslow College), and one of only a handful in the country, that does not have a school uniform.
Many of the current buildings date from the 1980s and are in the neo-brutalist style.
Wellington High School, and the institutions from which the current school evolved, have a significant place in the history of public education in New Zealand.
- ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ "History – Wellington High School". www.whs.school.nz. Retrieved 30 July 2024.