Opened February 1972 Principal Bruce Kearney Gender Co-educational Phone +64 3-375 5004 Founded February 1972 Funding type State school | Ministry of Education Institution no. 314 Years offered 9–13 School roll 833 (July 2016) Motto Ma Te Aroha Ka Tutaki Ministry of education institution number 314 | |
Address 101 Ohoka Rd, Kaiapoi 7630, New Zealand | ||
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Kaiapoi High School is a state co-educational secondary school located in Kaiapoi, in the Waimakariri District of New Zealand's South Island. The school serves 833 students from Years 9 to 13 (approx. ages 12 to 18) as of July 2016.
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History
The school opened in February 1972 as the Waimakariri District's second secondary school, supplementing Rangiora High School 11 km away in Rangiora. Like many New Zealand state secondary schools built in the 1970s, Kaiapoi High School was built to the S68 standard design, characterised by single-storey classroom blocks of masonry construction, low-pitched roofs with protruding clerestory windows, and internal open courtyards. Other schools using this design in the wider Canterbury area include Hornby High School and Ashburton College.
Enrolment
Kaiapoi High School serves the coastal Waimakariri District, including the towns of Kaiapoi, Woodend, Pegasus, Waikuku, and the surrounding rural area west to Swannanoa. It also serves the rural northeastern part of Christchurch City as far south as the Styx River, including Kainga, Brooklands, Spencerville.
At the April 2014 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, Kaiapoi High School had 587 students, including 24 international students. There were slightly more male students (51%) than female students. 79% of students identified as New Zealand European (Pākehā), 14% identified as Māori, and 7% identified as another ethnicity.
Kaiapoi High School has a socio-economic decile of 7 (funding step O), meaning it draws its school community from areas of moderately-low socio-economic disadvantage when compared to other New Zealand schools. This changed from decile 5 (funding step M) at the beginning of 2015, as part of the nationwide review of deciles following the following the 2013 census.
Karanga Mai Young Parents' College
Karanga Mai Young Parents' College is a teen parent unit attached to Kaiapoi High School designed to assist teenage parents (and expectant parents) in gaining a secondary school education. Opened in 1992, it was the first teen parent unit in the South Island, and only the second unit in New Zealand.