New Plymouth Girls' High School
New Plymouth Girls' High School is a girls' state secondary school in Strandon, New Plymouth, New Zealand. The school separated from New Plymouth High School in 1914, leaving New Plymouth Boys' High School on the old site.
It is currently one of two of New Plymouth's girls' schools along with Sacred Heart Girls' College and has a current roll of students.
Students are put into four houses for school activities such as swimming sports, athletics, and house plays. These houses are Tokomaru, Kurahaupo, Aotea and Tainui. The houses are named after four of the first Māori waka to arrive in New Zealand.
Enrolment
As of, New Plymouth Girls' High School has a roll of students, of which identify as Māori.As of, the school has an Equity Index of, placing it amongst schools whose students have socioeconomic barriers to achievement.
Notable staff
- Ida Gaskin – politician, Mastermind winner
- Leila Hurle – schoolteacher, schools inspector
Notable alumnae
- Mackenzie Barry – association footballer
- Daisy Basham – radio personality
- Michaela Blyde – rugby sevens player
- Kendra Cocksedge – rugby union player
- Dale Copeland – collage and assemblage artist
- Trish Gregory – fashion designer and businesswoman
- Paige Hareb – professional surfer
- Leila Hurle – schoolteacher, schools inspector
- Zoe Hobbs - athlete
- Michele Leggott – poet, academic
- Melanie Lynskey – actor
- Margaret Mutu – Ngāti Kahu leader and academic
- Debbie Ngarewa-Packer – politician
- Jean Sandel - surgeon
- Miriam Saphira - psychologist
- Carmel Sepuloni – politician
- Holly Shanahan – actress
- Toni Street – television presenter and sports commentator
- Beatrice Tinsley – astronomer and cosmologist