Wellington High School, New Zealand
| Wellington High School & Community Education Centre Māori: Te Kura Tuarua o Taraika ki Pukeahu | |
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| Address | |
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 | 1,673 (March 2025) |
| Socio-economic decile | 9Q |
| Website | www |
Wellington High School is a co-educational secondary school in the CBD of Wellington, New Zealand. It has a role of approximately 1600 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. 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.