The High School, Dublin

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The High School is a co-educational school located in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland. The school 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.

Rugby is the major sport and the school colours are black & red.

1 Developments
2 Distinguished Past Pupils
3 External links

[edit] Developments

[edit] Millennium Developments

The High School began re-developing its campus with the "Millennium Developments" Projects, which were completed in the summer of 2002. The projects involved the creation of two new buildings. The first, the "Technical and Crafts Building" contained four new classrooms. Two Home Economics Laboratories, A Woodworking Room, and two Technical Graphics Classrooms. The second building combined a music centre, archive room, rugby/cricket pavillion, and meeting rooms. This replaced the old Music Centre behind the school stage, and the 30-year old rugby pavillion.

[edit] Laboratories and ICT project

In 2003/2004, a second computer room based on a thin-client network was created. These computers originally ran Windows 2000. Also in this school year plans were created to refurbish the 30-year old school laboratories to modern standards, on a phased basis during summer holidays. Among the new innovations are key-operated gas pressure systems and eye-wash stations. Also in the summer of this year, the ageing main computer network (based in Windows 98) was upgraded with 28 modern PCs running Windows XP. The school servers and thin-client network were updated to Windows Server 2003.

[edit] Wireless Networking

In the summer of 2004/2005, two more laboratories were refurbished, and the school was fitted with a complete-coverage wireless network.

[edit] 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.