School History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1957 | The original premises of Heng Ee High School was located on a piece of land leased from the Convent Primary School which was then owned by the Tamil Catholic Church. Heng Ee was initially a private school built for the purpose of helping the destitute and overage Chinese students to obtain a formal Chinese education. |
| 1961 | The Catholic Church spent RM125,000 on the purchase of six acres of land located between Hamilton Road and Free School Road to build Heng Ee High School. |
| 1966 | A permit from the Ministry of Education was obtained to build the school. |
| 1967 | Heng Ee High School began operations by borrowing seven classrooms from Heng Ee Primary School while waiting for the completion of the construction of its own building. There were 280 students enrolled at that instance.
Block A, the first block of the four-storey building was completed. Secondary school children studying at the borrowed classrooms of Heng Ee Primary School were then transferred to the newly constructed secondary school building in the month of September. In the same year, Heng Ee High School received a grant from the Government and was converted into a national type secondary school bearing the name of SMJK Heng Ee. |
| 1969 | The construction of Block B was completed. |
| 1970 | An adjoining block (Block C) of building linking Block A and Block B was completed. |
| 1972 | The school saw a marked increase in its student enrollment, ranging from the Remove Form to Form Five. There were altogether 37 classes with a total number of 1228 students. |
| 1975 | Block D was built. |
| 1987 | The school saw a further increase in student enrollment. By then the student enrollment had reached 1800. The rapid increase in enrollment made the existing educational facilities inadequate. Further expansion became necessary to cater for the increasing enrollment. The School Board of Governors then decided to build another block of building to accommodate the increasing number of students. The planned development of the new block (Block E) soon got underway. |
| 1990 | The planned development of Block E materialised when the building was successfully completed and equipped with all necessary facilities. |
| 1991 | The School Board of Governors decided to convert Heng Ee High School, a school exclusively for boys to a co-educational school. |
| 1999 | Student enrollment increased to 2300 and that prompted the Board of Governors to top-up another floor on Block E. |
| 2001 | The school soared to greater heights of success when it saw a marked improvement in its academic performance in the SPM examinations. This prompted the Ministry of Education to approve the setting-up of Form Six Science Classes. |
| 2003 | Excellent academic achievements in the STPM examinations again prompted the Ministry of Education to approve the setting up of Form Six Humanities Classes.
The Guang Ming Award was bestowed upon the late Dato' Reverend Father Arthur Julien for his lifetime commitment in ensuring that the underprivileged Chinese students derived the full benefit of a Chinese education. |
| 2004 | The Lim Lean Gaik Award was bestowed upon the late Dato' Reverend Father Arthur Julien. |
| 2005 | The school received the Most Distinguished School Award in Cultural Stage Performance on the 18th of December 2005 during the 5th Malaysian Xin-Chuan Cultural Stage Performance Award held in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 2007 | The school rose above the challenge when it won the Sunlight Prize and the Best Conductor Prize in the 4th Beijing International Competition of Youth Chinese Orchestra held on the 11th of August 2007.
Heng Ee High School celebrated its Golden Jubilee on the 9th of September with much pomp and ceremony. A grand dinner was held in the school field to celebrate this special occasion. |
| 2008 | The Penang Municipal Council finally approved the sale of the two plots of land worth RM819,200 to Heng Ee High School to enable it to carry out its expansion project.
Heng Ee High School was awarded the School Excellence Award for the Co-Curricular Category by the Ministry of Education on the 4th of November 2008. |
| 2009 | Penang Municipal Council gave its seal of approval to the architect's plan of Bangunan Wawasan (Block F) on 2 July 2009. Construction works commenced on the 21st of November.
The new school canteen began operations on the 28th September 2009. For the first time in the history of Heng Ee, student enrollment hit a record high of 3000. |
| 2010 | Heng Ee High School hit a record enrollment of 3200 students, the highest in the school history. It has also put Heng Ee High School as the school with the second highest student enrollment in the state of Penang.
The construction of Bangunan Wawasan (Block F) was completed at the end of the year 2010. A milestone was set when three Form 4 students bagged three Gold Awards with their invention of FloodWarn, a flood-warning detector. Another milestone was set in the month of July 2010 when Heng Ee High School's performing arts bodies brought glory to the school. The School Choir bagged a Gold Award and an International Friendship Award in the 10th China International Choir competition. The Chinese Cultural Dance Troupe bagged two Gold Awards in the 2010 China-Asean Youth Dance Interaction and Competition and the Harmonica Band won three Gold Medals and four Silver Medals in the Asia Pacific Harmonica Competition. Heng Ee High School was presented the Champion Award for the Co-curricular Category (Clubs and Societies) by the MOE on the 11th of November 2010. |
| 2011 | Heng Ee High School hit a record-breaking enrolment of 3271 students. it is now the school with the highest student enrolment in Penang.
On the 9th of June 2011, the Chinese Orchestra was invited to a Cultural and Musical Exchange Programme at the Experimental School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. While our Chinese Orchestra was in Shanghai, they also had a musical exchange session with the Nanjing Arts Institute. On the 13th of June, the problem of floating classes for both Lower and Upper Six students was finally solved when the classes were finally moved to the newly built classrooms housed in Bangunan Wawasan. On the 14th of July 2011, the School Choir ventured to Taiwan and took part in the Orientale Concentus 1V International Choral Festival which was organised by the Singapore Federation for Choral Music. Our School Choir bagged two awards; a Gold Award in the Mixed choir for the Youth Category and the Most Promising Choir Award. On the 9th of September 2011, the newly built extension building was launched. Present to officiate the building were the Chief Minister of Penang, Lim Guan Eng, the school's board of director Dato' Loh Geok Beng and chamber president Tan Sri Tan Kok Ping. |
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