Rotorua Lakes High School
| Rotorua Lakes High School | |
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| Address | |
| Porikapa Road, Owhata, Rotorua, New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 38°08′11″S 176°18′06″E / 38.13638°S 176.30161°ECoordinates: 38°08′11″S 176°18′06″E / 38.13638°S 176.30161°E |
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| Funding type | State |
| Motto |
Māori: Mauria Te Pono (Keep Steadfastly to the Truth) |
| Established | 1971 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 154 |
| Principal | P B Walker |
| Staff | 75 |
| Years offered | 9–13 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Houses | |
| Colour(s) | Navy, gold and teal |
| School roll | 686(February 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 5M |
| Website | www.rotorualakes.school.nz |
Rotorua Lakes High School, commonly known as Lakes High, or simply Lakes is a state school educating boys and girls from Year 9 to Year 13. It is situated in Owhata, in the eastern suburbs of Rotorua, New Zealand, and draws many of its students from the eastern Rotorua urban area, and the semi-rural lakes communities to the south and east of Rotorua; this giving rise to the name Rotorua Lakes.
The school has a roll of 667 students from year 9 to 13 as of March 2016, including 9 international students. It offers the National Certificate of Educational Achievement qualification, alongside New Zealand Scholarship. Opened in 1971, the school is the youngest secondary school in Rotorua and is built in the "S68" style common for secondary schools in New Zealand in this period. Special features of the school include a special needs unit, Astroturf, squash court and horticulture complex.
Much of the school is built in the "S68" style common for school buildings built in the period 1968 to 1974, featuring single-storey blocks of rooms with cinderblock concrete construction, low-pitched roofs and internal courtyards.
Buildings in the school include standard classroom and administrative blocks, as well as blocks for science, technology, the library, and music. The school's hall is known as the D.C. Price Auditorium in honour of the school's foundation principal.
The school also has a wharenui, a purpose-built Health and Wellness Centre, a special needs education centre, gymnasium and netball courts, squash courts, and an Astroturf for hockey, tennis, netball and other sports.
The school colours of Rotorua Lakes High School are navy blue, teal and gold. The school logo is a stylised waha ika (traditional Maori weapon), which contains a map of all of the lakes in the Rotorua District. The school motto is in Maori, "Mauria Te Pono" which translates in English as "Keep Steadfastly to the Truth".
As of 2011, all students at the school will be in uniform for the first time. Prior to this date, Year 13 students were exempt from wearing the school uniform. There are two uniforms, one Junior Uniform (for Year 9-11 students) and one Senior Uniform (Year 12-13). Primarily, all uniform items are various shades of blue and feature the school logo, though Senior Uniform shirts and blouses are white. School Prefects and House Captains may wear the school blazer to school.
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