{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox school | name = Kaiapoi High School | image = Kaiapoi High School logo.jpg | motto = Ma Te Aroha Ka Tutaki | motto_translation = Through caring, concern and support for others, all things are possible | address = 85 Ohoka Road <br /> [[Kaiapoi]] 7630 <br /> New Zealand | coordinates = {{coord|-43.3879|172.6458|type:edu_region:NZ-CAN|display=inline,title}} | opened = February 1972 | fundingtype = [[State school|State]] | gender = Co-educational | years = 9–13 | MOE = 314 | enrollment = {{NZ school roll data|314|y||y}} <small>({{NZ school roll data|||y}})</small> | decile = 7O<ref name="decile2015">{{cite web |url= http://www.minedu.govt.nz/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/SchoolOpsResourcing/OperationalFundingDeciles/DecileChanges_20142015.xls |title= Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools |publisher= Ministry of Education |access-date= 12 February 2015 |archive-date= 24 January 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150124000031/http://www.minedu.govt.nz/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/SchoolOpsResourcing/OperationalFundingDeciles/DecileChanges_20142015.xls |url-status= dead }}</ref> | principal = Jason Reid | website = {{URL|www.kaiapoi.school.nz}} }}
'''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 {{NZ school roll data|314|y}} students from Years 9 to 13 (approx. ages 12 to 18) as of {{NZ school roll data|||y|y||.}}
==History== The Kaiapoi Borough Council first approached the government about establishing a school in the town in 1954.<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 March 1957 |title=HIGH SCHOOL AT KAIAPOI - Minister Promises Inquiry |pages=6 |work=[[The Press]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570320.2.46}}</ref> The Department of Education approved the purchase of the {{Convert|20.5|acre|ha|abbr=on|adj=on}} site on Ohoka Road in September 1961.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 September 1961 |title=KAIAPOI HIGH SCHOOL - Land Purchase Approved |pages=12 |work=[[The Press]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610918.2.155}}</ref>
The school opened in February 1972.<ref name="2012charter">{{cite web |url= http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz/DataStore/Pages/PAGE_1/Docs/Documents/Kaiapoi%20High%20School%20Charter%202012.pdf |title= Kaiapoi High School Charter 2012 |publisher= Kaiapoi High School Board of Trustees |access-date= 29 November 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013719/http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz/DataStore/Pages/PAGE_1/Docs/Documents/Kaiapoi%20High%20School%20Charter%202012.pdf |archive-date= 3 December 2013 |url-status= dead }}</ref> Like many New Zealand state secondary schools built in the 1970s, Kaiapoi High School was built to the [[New Zealand standard school buildings#S68|S68 standard design]], characterised by single-storey classroom blocks of masonry construction, low-pitched roofs with protruding clerestory windows, and internal open courtyards.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.minedu.govt.nz/NZEducation/EducationPolicies/Schools/PropertyToolBox/StateSchools/Design/EarthquakeResilience/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/PropertyToolbox/StateSchools/Design/General/MOEstandardbuildingcatalogue_ReV1.2.pdf |title= Catalogue of Standard School Building Types |publisher= Ministry of Education |location= Christchurch |date= August 2013 |access-date= 10 July 2014 |archive-date= 28 January 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150128051636/http://www.minedu.govt.nz/NZEducation/EducationPolicies/Schools/PropertyToolBox/StateSchools/Design/EarthquakeResilience/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/PropertyToolbox/StateSchools/Design/General/MOEstandardbuildingcatalogue_ReV1.2.pdf |url-status= dead }}</ref> 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, New Zealand|Woodend]], [[Pegasus Town|Pegasus]], [[Waikuku]], and the surrounding rural area west to [[Swannanoa, New Zealand|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 student]]s. There were slightly more male students (51%) than female students. 79% of students identified as [[New Zealand European]] (Pākehā), 14% identified as [[Māori people|Māori]], and 7% identified as another ethnicity.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports/Kaiapoi-High-School-13-06-2014 |title= Kaiapoi High School Education Review |date= 13 June 2014 |publisher= Education Review Office |access-date= 6 November 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141106021325/http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports/Kaiapoi-High-School-13-06-2014 |archive-date= 6 November 2014 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
As of {{NZ school roll data|3=y}}, Kaiapoi High School has roll of {{NZ school roll data|314|y}} students, of which {{NZ school roll data|314m|y}} ({{Decimals|{{formatnum:{{NZ school roll data|314m|y}}|R}}/{{formatnum:{{NZ school roll data|314|y}}|R}}*100|1}}%) identify as Māori.{{NZ school roll data|4=y}}
As of {{NZ school equity index data|203||y|||}}, the school has an [[Equity Index (New Zealand)|Equity Index]] of {{NZ school equity index data|314|y||||}},{{NZ school equity index data|28|||y||}} placing it amongst schools whose students have {{NZ school equity index data|314b|y||||}} socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 5 and 6 under the former [[Socioeconomic decile|socio-economic decile]] system).<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=School Equity Index Bands and Groups |url=https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/data-services/guidelines/school-equity-index-bands-and-groups |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.educationcounts.govt.nz |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ero.govt.nz/index.php/content/view/pdf/192781 |title= Karanga Mai Young Parents College Education Review |publisher= [[New Zealand Education Review Office]] |date= 23 October 2013 |access-date= 29 November 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203062640/http://ero.govt.nz/index.php/content/view/pdf/192781 |archive-date= 3 December 2013 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz/WebSpace/450/ |title= Karanga Mai Young Parents' College & Support |publisher= Kaiapoi High School |access-date= 29 November 2013 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203010604/http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz/WebSpace/450/ |archive-date= 3 December 2013 }}</ref>
== Notable alumni == {{main category|People educated at Kaiapoi High School}} *{{Annotated link|Jenni Adams}} *
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz School website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924003254/http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports?profileid=314 Education Review Office (ERO) reports for Kaiapoi High School] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924003219/http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports?profileid=2748 Education Review Office (ERO) reports for Karanga Mai Young Parents' College]
{{Waimakariri District}} {{Schools in Canterbury}}
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