Mount View High School (Cessnock)

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Mount View High School
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Mount View High School (Cessnock)
106 Mount View Road, [[Cessnock, New South Wales|], Hunter Region, New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates 32°49′41″S151°19′56.6″E / 32.82806°S 151.332389°E / -32.82806; 151.332389
Information
Type Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school
Established1985;41 years ago (1985)
School districtCessnock; Regional North
Educational authority New South Wales Department of Education
PrincipalShane Hookway
Teaching staff76.0 FTE (2025) [1]
Years 7–12
Enrolment930 [1]  (2025)
Campus type Regional
ColoursRed, grey, and white    
Website mountview-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Mount View High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Western Cessnock, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. [2]

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Established in 1985, [3] [4] the school enrolled approximately 930 students in 2025, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 24 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and five percent were from a language background other than English. [1] The school is fully operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Shane Hookway as of 2026.

The school is criticized heavily for a majority of reasons, such as: Poor enforcement of rules, persistent bullying, many unfocused students, high use of illegal drugs and alcohol (including vaping, the most common reported), large amounts of fighting and poor counselling, even one student saying; "..told they cant make an appointment because there are people with bigger problems". [5]

Overview

The school conducts a working vineyard and the P&C sells the wine to the public to raise funds for courses like their metal, wood, food and textile classes that they have to offer to students and other necessities.

F1 in Schools program

Mount View High School has had major successes in the F1 in Schools program, winning the NSW state finals in 2016 with 'Revolution Racing' and in 2017 with 'Pentessellate', with each team going on to place fourth at the national finals in their respective winning seasons. In 2017 'Revolution Racing' collaborated with 'Instant Transmission' a team from Queechy High School to form 'Envisity' and compete at the world finals where they placed 14th.

Storm

On November 7th, 2024, a large storm hit the area just before the school finished for the day, sending debris flying with winds up to 70 km/h (44 mph) and creating large hailstones. Large trees were broken and crushed cars, with the school commenting that it "significantly" impacted the safe exit of students and staff. The school was declared "safe" the following morning on the Friday with most of the work being completed on Thursday night. A tree had crushed a section of the industry class rooms and is still under repair as of December 2025. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mount View High School, Cessnock West, NSW: School profile". My School. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
  2. ↑ Bailey, Kristin, et al., eds. Mount View High School: 1985 – 2005 The First 21 Years (2005) (OCLC 225379094)
  3. ↑ Sellars, Krystal (30 June 2010). Mount View original Toni MacFarlane retires Archived 8 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Cessnock Advertiser
  4. ↑ Branley, Alison (4 September 2010). No high schools built in Hunter for 25 years, Newcastle Herald ("No new high schools have been built in the Hunter in the past 25 years even though the population has increased by more than a quarter in that time. A Newcastle Herald investigation has found the last two new high schools opened in the region were Rutherford High and Mount View High at Cessnock in 1985.")
  5. ↑ "Reviews of Mount View High School - Cessnock". www.schoolparrot.com.au. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
  6. ↑ "School reopens after large trees smash campus in wild storm". www.newcastleherald.com.au. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 30 January 2026.


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