| Motto：Honesty, Wisdom, the Glorious Health and Perseverance | |
| School Type | National High School |
| Establishment | 1922 |
| Location | Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Republic of China |
| Address | No.36, Xue-Fu Rd., Hsinchu City, Taiwan |
| Enrollment | Male：2100/Female：120 |
| Principal | Re-Chin Chang 張瑞欽 |
| School Area | 9.47 Hector |
National Hsinchu Senior High School (國立新竹高級中學) is a high school in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Student enrollment averages around 2200. Along with the National Hsinchu First Girls' High School, the school is considered the top-ranked secondary school in the Hsinchu-Miaoli region. The school is best known for its enduring music and athletic tradition. Internationally, the school is known as the alma mater of the Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Yuan T. Lee.
Led by the prominent educator Xin Zhi-ping (辛志平), the school serves as a model for well-rounded education in Taiwan.
Although traditionally an all-boy institution, the school started admitting females into the music program since 1998.
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HCHS, originally called Hsinchu County Hsinchu High School, was established on April 1, 1922. After World War II in 1945, the school was renamed Taiwan Provincial Hsinchu High School. In July, 1968, after compulsory education was extended to nine years, the school was renamed Taiwan Provincial Hsinchu Senior High School, and on February 1, 2000, renamed National Hsinchu Senior High School.
After the restoration in 1945, HCHS was a six-year high school, with a 3-year Junior and a 3-year Senior High division. However, the junior high division was suspended in 1957. In 1987, HCHS was directed to set up a math and science gifted class, later in 1998 a music-gifted class, and in 2004, a language and literature gifted class.
HCHS has been known as a school with a variety of clubs. More than 100 students' clubs offer students a wide range of extracurricular activities. Other activities such as school fair, winter and summer camps, concerts of all types and field both for trips are also held annually in HCHS the purpose of making teaching / learning more diversified and for helping students various interests and living skills. In addition, HCHS has been cooperating with other schools to host some inter-school activities.
Beyond that, HCHS holds a sports meet, a swimming contest, a marathon race of 5.6 km in Eighteen Peaks Mountain and an interclass choir contest, in all of which every student is required to participate. Numerous brilliant graduates have been educated into well-rounded persons in this way.
The current student leader is Yang Han.
HCHS covers an area of 10 hectares, well equipped with a students' activity center, gym, swimming pool, athletic field and several kinds of sport courts. Besides, in buildings for teaching, such as Building of Science, Building of Arts and Crafts, and Resource Building, there are Science Lab, Home Economics Classroom, Automatized Lab for Life and Technology program, Art Classroom and Music Classroom, Computer Classroom and Multimedia Language Classroom. On the campus are also a male and a female dormitory to house those students living far away.
The Concert Hall in the Music Building is the best of all among the high schools in Taiwan. It is open to the public to rent as well. Our library, specially equipped with a shelf of local information, is also open to the public.
Every year, students participate in international science exhibitions and are constant winners in international Olympic Games for science.
The musical clubs such as the choir, the brass band, the harmonica club and the Chinese music club in our school have a long history. They attend national musical contests and win many prizes every year.