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; Newcastle High School has  one of the largest Special Education Unit's In the Entire Hunter Region, As of October 2020 the principal is Janene Rosser. 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. Controversies. In January 2021, New Principal Janene Rosser brought in New Rules Involving Bell Times and Uniform Restrictions, Students and Parent's Have voiced their disdain for Rosser's new rules that Give Students Short Intervals to get to Class & Reportedly Over The Top Strict Rules involving Uniform, Staff & Students as well as Guardians  have stated that they think Rosser's over the Top implementation of these Rules is a PR Stunt to try and make the school look good while reportedly ignoring requests of repairs by Fellow Staff & Alumni, It has also been said that some students falling behind have found it hard coping to the new systems, therefor being ignored by Rosser when asked to return to the Status Quo.