Westland High School, Hokitika

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Westland High School
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Westland High School, Hokitika
140 Hampden Street
Hokitika, New Zealand
Coordinates 42°43′05″S170°58′23″E / 42.718°S 170.973°E / -42.718; 170.973 Coordinates: 42°43′05″S170°58′23″E / 42.718°S 170.973°E / -42.718; 170.973
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Funding typeState
Established1891
Ministry of Education Institution no. 305
Years offered7–13
Enrollment356 (February 2023)
Website www.westlandhigh.school.nz

Westland High School, previously Hokitika High School or Hokitika District High School, is a secondary school in Hokitika, New Zealand.

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History

The first application to have a high school in Hokitika was made in 1879. In the following year, the Royal Commissioners on Universities and Secondary Schools supported this move in their report. [1] The Hokitika High School Act 1883 was a piece of legislation championed by Gerard George Fitzgerald, member of parliament for the Hokitika electorate. The legislation, passed in September 1883, allowed for the establishment of a high school in Hokitika, formulated how the school board was to be determined, and gave the mechanism of dealing with land endowment. [2] The school board, which first met in February 1884, came together at regular interval but found that it would have insufficient funds to pay for a headmaster. [3] [4] The impasse was broken by The Hokitika High School Act 1883 Amendment Act, 1890, which was sponsored by the local MP Joseph Grimmond. [5] [6] [7] This enabled the high school to be established through a merger with the Hokitika State School, and Hokitika High School opened on Monday, 19 January 1891. [8]

The school's name was changed in 1963 to Westland High School; this was accommodated through the Westland High School Amendment Act 1963. [9]

The school war memorial is an obelisk that lists those pupils and teachers who served in World War I, and those who were killed in the Second Boer War and in World War II. [10]

Enrolment

At the August 2019 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, Westland High School had 300 students enrolled. 51% of students were male and 49% were female. The prioritised ethnic composition was 68% New Zealand European, 28% Māori, 2% Pacific peoples, and 2% other ethnic groups. [11]

Notable pupils

Notable staff

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  8. ↑ "West Coast Times". No. 8056. 19 January 1891. p. 2. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
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