Henderson High School (Auckland)

Henderson High School is a co-educational secondary school in the west Auckland suburb of Henderson, New Zealand, catering for students from Year 9 to Year 13. In May 2013 the school celebrated its 60th Jubilee, with top New Zealand Fashion designer Trelise Cooper, who is a former pupil of the school.

Facilities

Henderson High School was the first school constructed to a new common design plan, which were used during the post-World War II period to speed up secondary school construction. The "Henderson type school" was a single-storey all-timber school design, with long wings of classrooms facing onto corridors, fanning out from a central spine. It was a derivative of the "Naenae type school" (after its first use at Naenae College in Lower Hutt), which with two stories and mixed concrete and timber construction was too slow for a major school building programme. The Henderson school design lasted four years, 1953 to 1956, before it was replaced in 1957 with a new design centred on self-contained classroom blocks. Other school in the Auckland area built to the Henderson design include One Tree Hill College, Rangitoto College and Selwyn College.^[3]

The school's continuing modernisation programme provides students with ever improving facilities, including an architecturally designed administration building, together with a spacious entrance-way complemented with plenty of parking. The ongoing $5M school enhancement project includes an upgraded swimming pool and gymnasium. The school has been fully refurbished and upgraded to a very high standard. Classrooms are equipped with the latest technology for teaching and learning including internet access. The school has an excellent library with online computer services, new computer laboratories, music and drama facilities, a new dance studio, AV suite, art and photography rooms. New science, technology and mathematics facilities have been recently completed as well as a modern International Students’ support centre. Construction of a national hockey turf complex has partially been completed.

The school has a small independently owned and operated tuck shop.

International Students

Henderson High School each year welcomes students from different countries, which include Brazil, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Iran, Japan, Korea, Macau, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.^[4]

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