New Plymouth Girls' High School | |
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60 Northgate, New Plymouth, New Zealand | |
Coordinates | 39°03′21″S174°05′41″E / 39.0559°S 174.0946°E |
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Type | State single sex girls' secondary (Year 9–13) with boarding facilities |
Motto | Et Comitate, Et Virtute, Et Sapientia (Friendship – Courage – Wisdom Whakahoanga – Maia – Mātauranga) |
Established | 1914 |
Ministry of Education Institution no. | 172 |
Principal | Jacqui Brown |
School roll | 1,349 [1] (March 2025) |
Socio-economic decile | 7O [2] |
Website | npghs.school.nz |
New Plymouth Girls' High School is a girls' state secondary school in Strandon, New Plymouth, New Zealand. The school separated from New Plymouth High School in 1914, leaving New Plymouth Boys' High School on the old site. [3]
It is currently one of two of New Plymouth's girls' schools along with Sacred Heart Girls' College and has a current roll of 1,349 students. [1]
Students are put into four houses for school activities such as swimming sports, athletics, and house plays. These houses are Tokomaru (yellow), Kurahaupo (blue), Aotea (red) and Tainui (green). The houses are named after four of the first Māori waka to arrive in New Zealand.
As of March 2025, New Plymouth Girls' High School has a roll of 1,349 students, of which 312 (23.1%) identify as Māori. [1]
As of 2025, the school has an Equity Index of 448, [4] placing it amongst schools whose students have average socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 5 and 6 under the former socio-economic decile system). [5]
Name | Term | |
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1 | Catherine Grant | 1914 [6] |
2 | Flora Hodges | 1915–1916 [6] |
3 | Rhoda Barr | 1916–1920 [7] |
4 | Ethel May McIntosh | 1920–1924 [8] |
5 | Doris Napier Allan | 1925–1943 [9] |
6 | Rose Allum | 1943–1968 [10] |
7 | Jean Wilson | 1968–1974 |
8 | Noeline Bruning | 1975–1988 |
9 | Jain Gaudin | 1988–2002 [11] |
10 | Annette Sharp | 2002–2004 |
11 | Jenny Ellis | 2005–2016 [12] |
12 | Victoria Kerr | 2017–2020 [13] |
13 | Jacqui Brown | 2020–present [14] |
![]() | This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy.(September 2023) |