Avonside Girls' High School

Avonside Girls' High School
Māori: Te Kura Kōhine o Ōtākaro
New building shared with Shirley Boys' High School
Address
209 Travis Road


New Zealand
Information
TypeGirls state secondary school
MottoLatin: Summa Sequere
(Aim at the highest – seek to attain the best)
Established1919
Ministry of Education Institution no.324
PrincipalCatherine Law
Grades913
GenderGirls
School roll1,126 (March 2025)
Socio-economic decile6N
Websiteavonside.school.nz

Avonside Girls' High School (Māori: Te Kura Kōhine o Ōtākaro), is a large urban high school in Christchurch, New Zealand, with more than 1,000 girls from Year 9 to Year 13. It was formerly in the suburb of Avonside but moved in 2019, along with Shirley Boys' High School, to the former QEII Park site in the east of Christchurch.