Ko Taku Reo: Deaf Education New Zealand

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Ko Taku Reo: Deaf Education New Zealand
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Ko Taku Reo: Deaf Education New Zealand Kelston campus
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Ko Taku Reo: Deaf Education New Zealand
3 Archibald Road, New Lynn, Auckland
Coordinates 36°54′20″S174°39′56″E / 36.9055°S 174.6656°E / -36.9055; 174.6656
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TypeState co-ed special school with boarding facilities
Established1958
Ministry of Education Institution no. 903
PrincipalDavid Foster
Head of SchoolTom Purvis and Christine Miller
School roll118 [1] (August 2024)
Socio-economic decile3
Website www.kdec.school.nz

Ko Taku Reo: Deaf Education New Zealand is located in Archibald Road, New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand. It is a residential special school for deaf children, as well as a resource centre providing services and support for mainstream students, students in provisions, and teachers in New Zealand.

The Kelston School for the Deaf was established in 1958, as the Kelston School for Deaf Children. [2] It replaced the schools for the deaf at Mount Wellington and Lopdell House in Titirangi. [2] It changed its name to Kelston Deaf Education Centre in 1991 to better reflect the wide range of services it provided. [3] At the start of the third term of 2020 the school merged with the Van Asch Deaf Education Centre to form Ko Taku Reo, a national school for Deaf Education.

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References

  1. "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  2. 1 2 Devaliant, Judith (2009). "History Lessons". In Macdonald, Finlay; Kerr, Ruth (eds.). West: The History of Waitakere. Random House. pp. 211–212. ISBN   9781869790080.
  3. "History of Kelston School for the Deaf". kotakureo.school.nz. Ko Taku Reo. Retrieved 28 November 2020.