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Diamond Jubilee
2019 marks the 60th Anniversary – Diamond Jubilee – of Rotorua Boys’ High School, and also the School’s 105th year. While we will not officially be 105 years old until 8 June, the 60th Anniversary of our re-opening as Rotorua Boys’ High School was Sunday, 3 February, 2019.
We became the Rotorua Boys’ High School when the original Rotorua High School was divided into separate boys’ and girls’ high schools at the end of 1958. The girls of the former school left to form the new Rotorua Girls’ High School on Old Taupo Road; the boys remained on the present site to become Rotorua Boys’ High School. We re-opened here on 3 February, 1959, with 582 boys and twenty-one staff members. 60 years later, there are 930 boys and just over 121 staff members! We also inherited 45 years’ of proud history and tradition from the former Rotorua High School dating back to 1914.
– Kevin J. Lyall,
SCHOOL ARCHIVIST & HISTORIAN
