established in 1884 as the boys only single-sex maitland boys' high school, in 1986 the school collaborated with maitland girls' high school, and now both schools are co-educational, with maitland boys' high school renamed as maitland high school, and maitland girls' high school enamel as maitland grossmann high school. maitland high school enrolled approximately 960 students in 2018, from year 7 to year 12, of whom 15 percent identified as indigenous australians and five percent were from a language background other than english. the school is operated by the nsw department of education; the principal is a