Maitland High School | |
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Australia | |
Coordinates | 32°44′58″S 151°35′44″E / 32.74944°S 151.59556°E |
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Former name | Maitland Boys' High School |
Type | Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school |
Motto | French: En Avant (Go Forward) |
Established | 1884 (as Maitland Boys' High School) |
Educational authority | New South Wales Department of Education |
Principal | Paula Graham |
Teaching staff | 77.6 FTE (2023)[1] |
Years | 7–12 |
Enrolment | 936[1] (2023) |
Campus type | Suburban |
Houses |
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Colour(s) | Black and white |
Website | maitland-h |
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Maitland High School (abbreviated as MHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located on High Street, East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1884 as the boys only single-sex Maitland Boys' High School, in 1986 the school collaborated with Maitland Girls' High School, and now both schools are co-educational, with Maitland Boys' High School renamed as Maitland High School, and Maitland Girls' High School as Maitland Grossmann High School. Maitland High School enrolled approximately 936 students in 2023, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 17 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and seven percent were from a language background other than English.[1] The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education.