Established 1964 Principal Richard Vanderpyl Socio-economic decile 9Q Founded 1964 | Ministry of Education Institution no. 335 School roll 1356 (July 2016) Phone +64 3-348 9826 Ministry of education institution number 335 | |
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Type State Integrated Composite(Years 1-13) Address 30 Acacia Ave, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand Motto In thy light shall we see light | ||
Middleton Grange School (abbreviated MGS) in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a state-integrated Christian co-educational Year 1 to 13 school. It's currently New Zealand's largest evangelical Christian school.
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History
Established in 1964 by the Christian Schools Trust, as an independent Christian school and became integrated into the state system in 1996. Middleton Grange School's academic structure consists of four departments, Primary School, Middle School, Senior College and International College.
Middleton Grange School belongs to the Christchurch Christian Schools Network (CSN) and the New Zealand Association for Christian Schools (NZACS).
The school premises used to house the Christchurch headquarters of the Maxim Institute, a conservative Christian thinktank. Bruce Logan was once Middleton Grange's former curriculum director.
The school was ordered in 2010 to apologise and compensate a former employee for firing him because of his homosexuality.
Houses
Pupils and teachers are divided into specific houses which then compete in (mostly) sporting and cultural activities. There are four of these, named after early British explorers of Antarctica, as Robert Falcon Scott stayed at Middleton Grange's original gentry house before embarking on his ill-fated expedition.