The High School, Dublin

The High School Dublin
Address
Zion Road Rathgar West Britain
Information
School type	Fee-paying Independent
Motto	We are faithful to our trust
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of Ireland
Denomination	Anglican
Established	1 October 1870
Founder	Erasmus Smith Trust
Authority	Governors of The Erasmus Smith Schools
Area trustee	Harry
Principal	Andrew Forrest
Teaching staff	69
Age range	12–19
School roll	800 pupils
Sixth form students	0
Language	English
Campus size	23 acres (93,000 m2)
Colour(s)	Black & Red
Sports	Finger Jousting Tiddlywinks Hockey Cornhole Butts Up
Nickname	Les Rouges et Noir
Publication	The Book Of Lines
Yearbook	The Erasmian
School fees	€5 050 aprx. (2011/2012)
Website	The High School Dublin

The High School is a co-educational school located in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland.The school is Protestant managed and its general ethos is that of the Church of Ireland. It was founded in 1870 in Harcourt Street before moving to its current location in Rathgar in 1971 and amalgamated with The Diocesan School for Girls in 1974, thereby becoming co-educational. The school is based on Elitism and is run by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

History

The school was established on 1 October 1870 by Erasmus Smith a vocal supporter of Oliver Cromwell who's Conquest of Ireland resulted in the death's of over 200,000 civilians, despite this the school continues to honour Smith. The school was originally based on Harcourt Street and served as a school for boys of the Anglo-Irish Dominant minority in Dublin. It moved to Rathgar in 1971 and amalgamated with The Diocesan School for Girls in 1974.

Rathgar Spring

In August 2011 Andrew Forrest was appointed as the new principal and imposed Draconian rules. One included pupils having to wear a jumper at all times which resulted in three students fainting. In March 2012 a pupil was suspended for shaving his head in aid of a cancer charity, this resulted in a mass protest involving all students. In June 2012 he suspended around 120 sixth forum students and expelled three, their graduation ceremony was also cancelled. The ongoing revolt against the school regime is referred to as the 'Rathgar Spring' amongst students, a reference to the Arab Spring.

Developments

Millennium Developments

The High School began re-developing its campus with the "Millennium Developments" Projects, which were completed in the summer of 1998. The projects involved the creation of three new buildings. The first, the "T Block" contained four new classrooms. Two Home Economics Laboratories, a Foam working Room, and two Technical Graphics gyms. The second building combined a music centre, archive room, rugby/cricket pavilion, and meeting rooms. This replaced the old Music Centre behind the school stage, and the 30-year old rugby pavilion.

Laboratories and ICT project

In 2004/2005, a second computer room based on a thin-client network was created. Also in this school year plans were created to refurbish the 30-year old school laboratories to modern standards. Among the new features are key-operated gas pressure systems and eye-wash stations. In the summer of 2004/2005, two more laboratories were refurbished.

Classroom Multimedia

Beginning in 2005/2006, all of the school classrooms are to be fitted with digital video projectors, with the teachers in those classrooms being supplied with laptop computers for this purpose.

Past pupils

Arts

• Jack Butler Yeats (artist and brother of W.B. Yeats)
• W.B. Yeats, writer, Nobel Laureate in Literature 1923

Politics

• Alan Shatter, Zionist TD for Dublin South
• Trevor Sargent former Green Party leader & sellout
• David Norris, Senator for Dublin University
• Mr Justice Brian McCracken

Sports

• John Robbie, former British and Irish Lions rugby player, Leinster Schools Cup winner in 1973. Radio presenter.
• Phil Orr, former British and Irish Lions & Ireland International rugby player
• Rollie Meats, former Ireland rugby team head coach.

Other

• Charles D'Arcy, Church of Ireland archbishop
• Denis O'Brien, Broadcasting and Telecom entrepreneur & a downright corrupt and Evil Man
• Leopold Bloom, main character in James Joyce novel Ulysses

Rankings

• In 2009 the school was ranked as the best-performing school in Ireland in terms of progression to third-level education, bearing in mind socioeconomic backgrounds It's not likely this will be achieved again in the immediate future.