Avonside Girls' High School

Avonside Girls' High School
Māori: Te Kura Kōhine o Ōtākaro
New building shared with Shirley Boys' High School
Address
Map
209 Travis Road


New Zealand
Information
TypeGirls state secondary school
MottoLatin: Summa Sequere
(Aim at the highest – seek to attain the best)
Established1919
Ministry of Education Institution no.324
PrincipalCatherine Law
Grades913
GenderGirls
School roll1081[1] (August 2024)
Socio-economic decile6N[2]
Websiteavonside.school.nz

Avonside Girls' High School (Māori: Te Kura Kōhine o Ōtākaro), is a large urban high school in Christchurch, New Zealand, with more than 1,000 girls from Year 9 to Year 13. It was formerly in the suburb of Avonside but moved in 2019, along with Shirley Boys' High School, to the former QEII Park site in the east of Christchurch.[3]

  1. ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. ^ Law, Tina (10 April 2019). "Two Christchurch secondary schools say goodbye to original sites". Stuff. Retrieved 15 May 2019.