Massey High School

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Massey High School is a co-educational state secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand established in 1969. The school is located on the western edge of the city, giving it a blend of suburban and rural students. It has experienced significant roll growth over the past few years and is now the 12th largest school in New Zealand. In 2017 it was rated decile 4.HistoryEstablished in 1969, the school was initially based at Henderson High School until the buildings on the current site at Don Buck Road were completed in 1970. Initially the school had a rural makeup but as the city of Auckland spread to the west and north the school experienced significant roll growth and an increase in suburban students. In order to accommodate this large roll growth the school had to make use of prefabricated class rooms dotted around the campus.The school is structurally a "Nelson 2H" school, like most New Zealand secondary schools built in the 1960s. The Nelson 2H is characterised by its two-storey H-shaped classroom blocks, with stairwells at each end of the block and a large ground floor toilet and cloak area on one side. Massey High School has three Nelson 2H blocks.In 2003 the school began a comprehensive campus development programme to bring facilities up to date, opening the Bruce Candy Science Centre, a three story complex with dedicated specialist labs for physics, biology, chemistry, electronics and horticulture. Classroom allocation was streamlined in 2003 to create dedicated buildings for each department, with buildings being specifically dedicated to English, international languages, mathematics, computing and commerce, art, and history.