Kaiapoi High School

The Kaiapoi Borough Council first approached the government about establishing a school in the town in 1954.{{Cite news |date=20 March 1957 |title=HIGH SCHOOL AT KAIAPOI - Minister Promises Inquiry |pages=6 |work=The Press |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570320.2.46}} The Department of Education approved the purchase of the {{Convert|20.5|acre|ha|abbr=on|adj=on}} site on Ohoka Road in September 1961.{{Cite news |date=18 September 1961 |title=KAIAPOI HIGH SCHOOL - Land Purchase Approved |pages=12 |work=The Press |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610918.2.155}}

The school opened in February 1972.{{cite web |url= http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz/DataStore/Pages/PAGE_1/Docs/Documents/Kaiapoi%20High%20School%20Charter%202012.pdf |title= Kaiapoi High School Charter 2012 |publisher= Kaiapoi High School Board of Trustees |access-date= 29 November 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013719/http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz/DataStore/Pages/PAGE_1/Docs/Documents/Kaiapoi%20High%20School%20Charter%202012.pdf |archive-date= 3 December 2013 |url-status= dead }} Like many New Zealand state secondary schools built in the 1970s, Kaiapoi High School was built to the S68 standard design, characterised by single-storey classroom blocks of masonry construction, low-pitched roofs with protruding clerestory windows, and internal open courtyards.{{cite web |url= http://www.minedu.govt.nz/NZEducation/EducationPolicies/Schools/PropertyToolBox/StateSchools/Design/EarthquakeResilience/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/PropertyToolbox/StateSchools/Design/General/MOEstandardbuildingcatalogue_ReV1.2.pdf |title= Catalogue of Standard School Building Types |publisher= Ministry of Education |location= Christchurch |date= August 2013 |access-date= 10 July 2014 |archive-date= 28 January 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150128051636/http://www.minedu.govt.nz/NZEducation/EducationPolicies/Schools/PropertyToolBox/StateSchools/Design/EarthquakeResilience/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/PropertyToolbox/StateSchools/Design/General/MOEstandardbuildingcatalogue_ReV1.2.pdf |url-status= dead }} Other schools using this design in the wider Canterbury area include Hornby High School and Ashburton College.

Kaiapoi High School serves the coastal Waimakariri District, including the towns of Kaiapoi, Woodend, Pegasus, Waikuku, and the surrounding rural area west to Swannanoa. It also serves the rural northeastern part of Christchurch City as far south as the Styx River, including Kainga, Brooklands, Spencerville.

At the April 2014 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, Kaiapoi High School had 587 students, including 24 international students. There were slightly more male students (51%) than female students. 79% of students identified as New Zealand European (Pākehā), 14% identified as Māori, and 7% identified as another ethnicity.{{cite web |url= http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports/Kaiapoi-High-School-13-06-2014 |title= Kaiapoi High School Education Review |date= 13 June 2014 |publisher= Education Review Office |access-date= 6 November 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141106021325/http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports/Kaiapoi-High-School-13-06-2014 |archive-date= 6 November 2014 |url-status= dead }}

As of {{NZ school roll data|3=y}}, Kaiapoi High Schhool has roll of {{NZ school roll data|314|y}} students, of which {{NZ school roll data|314m|y}} ({{Decimals|{{formatnum:{{NZ school roll data|314m|y}}|R}}/{{formatnum:{{NZ school roll data|314|y}}|R}}*100|1}}%) identify as Māori.{{NZ school roll data|4=y}}

As of {{NZ school equity index data|203||y|||}}, the school has an Equity Index of {{NZ school equity index data|314|y||||}},{{NZ school equity index data|28|||y||}} placing it amongst schools whose students have {{NZ school equity index data|314b|y||||}} socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 5 and 6 under the former socio-economic decile system).{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=School Equity Index Bands and Groups |url=https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/data-services/guidelines/school-equity-index-bands-and-groups |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.educationcounts.govt.nz |language=en-NZ}}

Karanga Mai Young Parents' College is a teen parent unit attached to Kaiapoi High School designed to assist teenage parents (and expectant parents) in gaining a secondary school education. Opened in 1992, it was the first teen parent unit in the South Island, and only the second unit in New Zealand.{{cite web |url= http://ero.govt.nz/index.php/content/view/pdf/192781 |title= Karanga Mai Young Parents College Education Review |publisher= New Zealand Education Review Office |date= 23 October 2013 |access-date= 29 November 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203062640/http://ero.govt.nz/index.php/content/view/pdf/192781 |archive-date= 3 December 2013 |url-status= dead }}{{cite web |url= http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz/WebSpace/450/ |title= Karanga Mai Young Parents' College & Support |publisher= Kaiapoi High School |access-date= 29 November 2013 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203010604/http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz/WebSpace/450/ |archive-date= 3 December 2013 }}

{{maincat|People educated at Kaiapoi High School}}

• {{Annotated link|Jenni Adams}}

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.kaiapoi.school.nz School website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924003254/http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports?profileid=314 Education Review Office (ERO) reports for Kaiapoi High School]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924003219/http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports?profileid=2748 Education Review Office (ERO) reports for Karanga Mai Young Parents' College]

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