Northcote High School
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Northcote, Victoria, Australia |
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| Type | Government Secondary School |
| Motto |
Latin: Meliora Sequamur (Let us follow better things) |
| Established | 1926 |
| Principal | Kate Morris |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Enrolment | ~1,595 |
| Houses | Merri, Plenty, Batman, Sumner |
| Colour(s) | Green, purple & gold. |
| Yearbook | Ripples |
| Website | www.nhs.vic.edu.au |
Northcote High School is a co-educational, state secondary school in Northcote, Victoria, Australia. It is situated at the southern end of the City of Darebin, on St Georges Road, Northcote.
The school teaches from Years 7 to 12 and has a population of approximately 1,600 students. Northcote High has a large music and science program, and has been recognised as a significant leader in the use of learning technologies in the classroom.
Northcote High School was established in 1926 as a co-educational secondary school, one of the first six to be established in Melbourne by the Victorian Government. The school owes its establishment largely to agitation led by John Cain (senior), Northcote City Councillor and later Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Jika Jika, with support from the headmasters of nearby Northcote (Helen Street) Primary School and Wales Street Primary School. Cain's repeated efforts to establish a school to provide secondary education for the then predominantly working class suburb of Northcote were finally successful, despite an environment of opposition from conservative politicians and independent principals.
Although Northcote High School was established as a co-educational school, it became a boys' school after 1928 when Preston Girls High School was established. In the 1980s Northcote High School again began to enrol girls in response to community pressure, officially moving to co-education in 1989. In 2012 there were approximately 840 boys and 710 girls enrolled.
The school has a strong connection to the inner northern Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy North, Clifton Hill, Brunswick East, Northcote, Thornbury, Fairfield, Preston and Reservoir with many of its students attending the school as their parents once did. A feature of Northcote High School is the number of staff who are former students (including two former School Captains) and others who have their own children at the school.
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