Logan Park High School
| Logan Park High School | |
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| Address | |
| 74 Butts Road North Dunedin Dunedin 9016 New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 45°51′44.62″S 170°31′40.09″E / 45.8623944°S 170.5278028°ECoordinates: 45°51′44.62″S 170°31′40.09″E / 45.8623944°S 170.5278028°E |
| Information | |
| Funding type | State |
| Motto | Kua mutu kua timata |
| Established | 1975 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 376 |
| Principal | Jane Johnston |
| Years offered | 9–13 |
| Gender | co-educational |
| School roll | 622(February 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 7O |
| Website | lphs.school.nz |
Logan Park High School is a high school founded in 1975 in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has a roll of 600 students with a teaching staff of about 50, with some 18 further auxiliary and administrative staff.
It was opened in 1975 on the site of a former rifle range in a small wooded valley adjacent to Logan Park, an area of land reclaimed from the former Lake Logan (itself previously Pelichet Bay) and now largely converted into a park and playing fields in Dunedin North. The city's main athletics and soccer venue, the Caledonian Ground, is located next to the school grounds. A new stadium for Dunedin city, Forsyth Barr Stadium at University Plaza (under construction in 2009), and the University Oval cricket ground are also located nearby.
The school developed from an earlier school in central Dunedin, King Edward High School, which itself had long links with Otago Polytechnic (which has also previously occupied a central Dunedin site). The school's proximity to the city's tertiary institutions (The University of Otago, Otago Polytechnic, and Dunedin College of Education) allows the school access to tertiary study facilities it would otherwise not have access to.
Logan Park has a current roll of around 600 students, and its roll peaked at about 1200 in 1995. The school has a teaching staff of about 35, with some 15 further auxiliary and administrative staff. LPHS is one of the four state coeducational schools in Dunedin, and in 1998, Jane Johnson was appointed as the school's first female principal and currently holds the position.
Logan Park High School combines both a junior and a senior school. Year 9 (Form 3) and Year 10 (Form 4) are the juniors of the school; Years 11 to 13 (Forms 5 to 7) are the seniors of the school. Most senior students sit their NCEA examinations during their time at the school.
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