Cessnock High School

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|location = Aberdare Road, Cessnock, New South Wales

|country = Australia

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|type = Government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school

|educational_authority = New South Wales Department of Education

|district = Cessnock; Regional North

|established = {{start date and age|1938}}

|principal = Peter Riley

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|grades = 7–12

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|enrolment = 636{{cite web |url=https://www.myschool.edu.au/school/42089 |title=Cessnock High School, Cessnock, NSW: School profile |work=My School |publisher=Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority |date=2021 |access-date=16 March 2022}}

|enrolment_as_of = 2021

|teaching_staff = 59.9 FTE (2021)

|campus type = Regional

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|colours = Navy and gold {{color box|navy}}{{color box|gold}}

|homepage = {{URL|https://cessnock-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/}}

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Cessnock High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Aberdare, in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia.

The school provides the NSW Higher School Certificate (HSC) in Year 12.

The school enrolled approximately 636 students in 2020, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 25 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and two percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Peter Riley.{{cite web |url=https://cessnock-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/our-staff/senior-executive.html |title=Senior Executive |publisher=Cessnock High School |access-date=1 February 2021}}

The school is part of the Cessnock Community of Great Public Schools, a local management group consisting of 15 schools designed to improve learning, engagement and wellbeing in the region.{{cite web |url=https://ccgps.schools.nsw.gov.au/our-schools.html |title=What is CCGPS? |publisher=NSW Department of Education |access-date=1 February 2021}}