Hornby High School

State co-ed secondary (year 7–13) school
  Socio-economic decile3H[1]Websitewww.hornby.school.nz

Hornby High School is a state coeducational secondary school located in the western Christchurch, New Zealand suburb of Hornby. It caters for approximately 932 students from Years 7 to 13 (ages 10 to 18).

History

The school opened in February 1975 to serve the growing Hornby area. The permanent classroom blocks were supposed to be ready for the first intake of 240 Form 3 (now Year 9) students, but delays within the Treasury and Ministry of Works saw the completion date pushed back to early 1976. As a temporary solution, the Canterbury Education Board constructed twelve CEBUS relocatable classroom blocks[nb 1] at the eastern end of the school site. Most of the CEBUS classrooms are still present at the school, alongside the permanent S68 classroom blocks typical of 1970s-built New Zealand state secondary schools.[3][4]

Originally a Year 9 to 13 secondary school, the school added Years 7 and 8 in January 2014 following the closure of nearby Branston Intermediate School[5]

Notable staff

John Minto, political activist[6]

Notes

  1. ^ CEBUS stands for Canterbury Education Board Unit System

References

  1. ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  2. ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  3. ^ Williams, Murray Noel (2014). Building Yesterday's Schools: An Analysis of Educational Architectural Design as Practised by the Building Department of the Canterbury Education Board from 1916-1989 (Thesis). University of Canterbury. hdl:10092/9591. OCLC 889975505.
  4. ^ "Catalogue of Standard School Building Types" (PDF). Christchurch: Ministry of Education. August 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  5. ^ Parata, Hekia (20 June 2013). "Change of Class of Hornby High School (338), Christchurch" (PDF). New Zealand Gazette. 2013 (78). New Zealand Government: 2137. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Minto to stand for Christchurch mayoralty". Otago Daily Times Online News. 13 July 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

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