Wellington High School (New Zealand)
Wellington High School is a co-educational secondary school in downtown Wellington, New Zealand. In 2004 the roll was approximately 1200 students. Most notable for its buildings, which date from 1980 and are in the neo-brutalist style, with pyramidal roofs resemblent of outlets of Kentucky Fried Chicken (or KFC).
It was founded in 1886 by Arthur Dewhurst Riley, moving to its present site on Taranaki Street in 1924, and has since has become one of the best-known and admired schools in New Zealand, taking the award for Education Exporter of the Year 2004, and the student radio station, Livewire, has won several Young Enterprise awards.
The principal as of 2004 was Prue Kelly, and resident system administrator is Dan Dempsey.
Other New Zealand schools of interest are Cambridge High School, Auckland Grammar School and Wellington College, which Wellington High School is often confused with (and vice-versa).
There is also a Wellington High School in Florida.
