Mount View High School (Cessnock)


Mount View High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in West Cessnock, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1985, the school enrolled approximately 961 students in 2019, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 15 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and three percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Shane Hookway.

Overview

The school provides the school certificate in Year 10 and the NSW Higher School Certificate in Year 12.
The school conducts a working vineyard and the P&C sells the wine to the public to raise funds.

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.