| Otago Girls' High School | |
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| Address | |
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41 Tennyson Street 9016 New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 45°52′30″S 170°30′00″E / 45.874981°S 170.499946°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State |
| Motto | Latin: Recti Cultus Pectora Roborant ("The ‘right’ learning builds a heart of oak") |
| Established | 6 February 1871; 148 years ago |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 378 |
| Principal | Linda Miller |
| Years | 9–13 |
| Gender | Girls-only |
| School roll | 703[1] (August 2024) |
| Houses | Allan Benjamin Cruikshank Williams |
| Song | The Chambered Nautilus |
| Socio-economic decile | 8P[2] |
| Newspaper | Nautilus |
| Website | otagogirls.school.nz |
Otago Girls' High School (OGHS) is a secondary school in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. It was opened 6 February 1871, after a long campaign by Learmonth Whyte Dalrymple. It is one of the oldest girls state-run secondary school in the Southern Hemisphere and the sixth oldest of its type in the world.[3][4]
The school has its own radio show on Otago Access Radio.[5]
- ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. 29 November 2013. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ Otago Museum article
- ^ "History - About | Otago Girls' High School - Dunedin, New Zealand". www.otagogirls.school.nz. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
- ^ "Children and Youth". Association of Community Access Broadcasters. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.