Cashmere High School
| Cashmere High School | |
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| Address | |
| 172 Rose Street Somerfield Christchurch 8024 New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 43°33′57″S 172°37′27″E / 43.5659°S 172.6243°ECoordinates: 43°33′57″S 172°37′27″E / 43.5659°S 172.6243°E |
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| Funding type | State |
| Motto | Leading Learning |
| Established | 1956 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 340 |
| Principal | Mark Wilson |
| Years offered | 9–13 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Colour(s) | Burgundy, dark grey & dark gold |
| School roll | 2034(February 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 9Q |
| Website | www |
Cashmere High School (Māori: Te iringa o Kahukura) is a state coeducational secondary school, located in southern Christchurch, New Zealand. It was opened in 1956 in response to population growth in southern Christchurch during the 1950s.
The school is located in the suburb of Somerfield, on the northern bank of the Heathcote River overlooked by the Cashmere Hills. Serving Years 9 to 13, Cashmere has a roll of 2034 students as of February 2017, making it the third-largest school in Christchurch.
The school opened at the beginning of the 1956 school year with 198 students under founding headmaster Terry McCombs, a former Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives who had served as Minister of Education from 1947 to 1949. McCombs served seventeen years as headmaster before retiring at the end of the 1972 school year.
In the late 1980s, state school administration across New Zealand was reformed by the Fourth Labour Government in what was known as the "Tomorrow's Schools" reforms. From 1989, Cashmere was no longer under the governance of the Canterbury Education Board, which had been abolished, but under the self-governance of a Board of Trustees elected by the school community.
The current principal, Mark Wilson, replaced Dave Turnbull in July 2009.
Cashmere suffered moderate damage in the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, mainly from liquefaction. On the day, the school had closed for instruction for the day at 12:00pm due to the Post Primary Teachers' Association, the main secondary school teachers' trade union, holding a paid union meeting that afternoon, meaning very few students and staff were on site when the quake struck at 12:51pm. The school reopened on 14 March after the school buildings were inspected and deemed safe, and essential repairs and temporary fixes had been carried out. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the school played host to Linwood College in a site sharing agreement while Linwood's severely damaged facilities were inspected and repaired. Cashmere used the site in the morning, while Linwood used the site in the afternoon for five months, until Linwood College moved back to its original site on 1 August.
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