Wellington High School (New Zealand)

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275 Taranaki St, Mount Cook, Wellington 6011, New Zealand

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S41° 18' 3.24" E174° 46' 29.28"   (-41.3009, 174.7748) Start navigation »

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Wellington High School is a co-educational (since 1905) secondary school in downtown Wellington, New Zealand. In 2005 the roll was approximately 1100 students. It was founded in the 1880s as the Wellington College of Design (later the Wellington Technical Art School) to provide a more appropriate education for the Dominion than the narrow academic training provided by the existing schools. It is the first co-educational secondary in New Zealand. It is one of only two schools in Wellington (along with Onslow College), and one of only a few New Zealand secondary schools that does not have a school uniform.
Many of the current buildings date from the 1980s and are in the neo-brutalist style pyramidal roofs.

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