Queen's High School, Dunedin
Girls' secondary school
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Queen's High School is a state single-sex girls' secondary school in Dunedin.
(Through Love of Learning, We Learn to Live.)
| Queen's High School | |
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| Location | |
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195 Surrey Street Saint Clair Dunedin 9012 New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 45.903551°S 170.492071°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Girls' Secondary |
| Motto | Latin: Amore Discimus Discendi Vivere (Through Love of Learning, We Learn to Live.) |
| Established | 1955 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 384 |
| Principal | Barbara Agnew[1] |
| Enrollment | 591[2] (October 2025) |
| Socio-economic decile | 5M[3] |
| Website | queens.school.nz |
It is located at the southern end of the city close to the boundary between the suburbs of St Clair and Forbury, next to the parallel single-sex boys' school, King's, with which it shares some facilities.
Pat Harrison (later Dame Pat) was principal of the school from 1975 to 1994.[4]
Notable people associated with Queen's include ex-drama teacher Terry McTavish and alumna chemical engineer Gretchen Kivell.[5][6]
Enrolment
As of October 2025, the school has roll of 591 students, of which 146 (24.7%) identify as Māori.[2]
As of 2026, the school has an Equity Index of 463,[7] placing it amongst schools whose students have average socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to decile 5 and 6 under the former socio-economic decile system).[8]
