| Otago Boys' High School | |
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| Address | |
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2 Arthur Street 9016 New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 45°52′18″S 170°29′42″E / 45.871597°S 170.495051°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State secondary, day and boarding |
| Motto | Latin: Recti Cultus Pectora Roborant ("The ‘right’ learning builds a heart of oak") |
| Established | 3 August 1863 |
| Sister school | Otago Girls' High School |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 377 |
| Rector | Richard Hall |
| Gender | Boys |
| School roll | 875[1] (February 2024) |
| Houses | Aspinall McIndoe Park Saxton |
| Socio-economic decile | 9Q[2] |
| School Song | Follow Up Otago High |
| Website | obhs.school.nz |
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Otago Boys' High School (OBHS) is a secondary school in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is one of New Zealand's oldest boys' secondary schools. Originally known as Dunedin High School,[3] it was founded on 3 August 1863 and moved to its present site in 1885. The main building was designed by Robert Lawson and is regarded as one of the finest Gothic revival structures in the country.[4] Situated on high ground above central Dunedin it commands excellent views of the city and is a prominent landmark.
Otago Girls' High School now occupies the original site in Tennyson Street, closer to the centre of the city and is Otago Boys' sister school.
The school owns a lodge in Mount Aspiring National Park, and has regular field trips for students.
- ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ Benson, Nigel; Jaquiery, Stephen (8 January 2012). "Nautical ghosts inhabit coast". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ^ An English artist visiting New Zealand, signing himself Evacustes in a letter to the Otago Daily Times, when the building was still mostly a design, expressed such an opinion, also that this building and the university's "would do credit to any town either in Europe or America". Otago Daily Times 23 March 1883 p.4h.