Chilton Saint James School

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Chilton Saint James School
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Address
Chilton Saint James School
124 Waterloo Road
Hutt Central
Lower Hutt 5010
New Zealand
Coordinates 41°12′37″S174°54′49″E / 41.2104°S 174.9137°E / -41.2104; 174.9137
Information
Funding typePrivate
Established1918
Ministry of Education Institution no. 263
PrincipalCaroline Robertson [1]
Years offeredPreschool, Years 1–13
GenderFemale (Male students may be enrolled through the music or dance school)
School roll262 [2] (February 2024)
Socio-economic decile10
Website www.chilton.school.nz

Chilton Saint James School is a private single-sex girls composite school located in central Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The school was founded in 1918 by Geraldine FitzGerald, and was a combined day and boarding school until the dormitories closed in the late 1970s. [3] Chilton St James has a roll of 262 students from Years 1 to 13 (ages 5 to 18) as of February 2024. [2] The school also has a co-educational preschool for boys and girls from the age of 2.

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In 2018 Chilton introduced the Cambridge curriculum. Alongside this change they opened the Chilton Ballet Academy (CBA), a co-ed dance training school that prepares young dancers to break into the industry. [4] In 2020, the school also opened the Co-ed Chilton Music School (CMS) as a musical program to help prepare students who want to go into the music industry. The school runs the Chilton Dance Centre, which provides afterschool dance lessons and training in classical ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, lyrical, tap, musical theatre dance and pilates to students from Preschool to Adults.

Enrolment

As a private school, Chilton St James receives little funding from the government and charges parents of students tuition fees to cover costs. As of 2013, the school fees range from NZ$12,732 for Year 1–3 student to $17,080 for Year 9–13 students, inclusive of GST. A 7.5% fee discount applies if a student has one or more siblings also attending the school. [5] Fees for international students are higher.

At the March 2013 Education Review Office (ERO) review, Chilton St James had 420 students, including four international students. 63% as New Zealand European (Pākehā), 9% as other European, 16% as Asian (including 5% as Indian), 6% as Māori, 3% as Pacific Islanders, and 4% as other ethnicities. [6]

The school has a socio-economic decile of 10, meaning the school draws its students mainly from areas of little or no socio-economic deprivation. [ citation needed ]

Notable staff

Notable alumnae

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References

  1. ↑ "Meet The Principal". Chilton Saint James School. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "History in a nutshell". Chilton Saint James School. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Wenman, Eleanor (15 April 2018). "Dance the day away: Life as a secondary school ballet student". Sunday Star Times.
  5. ↑ "Chilton Saint James School Fees and Business Regulations" (PDF). Chilton Saint James School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Chilton St James School Education Review". Education Review Office. 27 May 2013. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Gardner, W. J. "Alice Muriel Flora Candy". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  8. ↑ McGahey, Kate (2000). The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists. Wellington: Gilt Edge. p. 42.
  9. ↑ "Take Note[sound recording] Items". Chilton Saint James School. 1997. Retrieved 4 January 2021– via National Library of New Zealand.
  10. ↑ McConnell, Rhiannon (25 February 2014). "Acting up in New York". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  11. ↑ "Peggy Spicer". www.arcadja.com. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
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