History
It was established in 2003 by the Christchurch-based Learning Discovery Trust, which had earlier set up the primary Discovery 1 School, and is one of just eleven schools running under the "Designated Special Character" criteria of the Education Act 1989, Section 156:
- "...The special character of schools established under this section is not specified in the Act, and parents may propose any desirable special character as long as no other local school is already delivering an education reflecting the same special character...".
This special character element is similar in some respects to the charter school system in the United States.
The school started with just 40 students (the "foundation forty"), but now has a roll of around 400 students, aged from 12 to 18 years of age.
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