Cashmere High School is a large co-educational state secondary school in Christchurch

Christchurch

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

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. The 2008 roll was approximately 1800 making it the second-largest school in Christchurch, after Burnside High School

Burnside High School

Burnside High School is the second largest high school in New Zealand with over 2600 students, and is located in the suburb of Burnside in Christchurch, New Zealand.-History:...

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The School has a Conductive Education

Conductive education

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 Unit.

The school is currently site sharing with Linwood High School

Linwood High School

Linwood High School is a non-denominational comprehensive state secondary school in Linwood, Renfrewshire.The original school building was constructed in 1965 and demolished in 2006 for a new school to be constructed on the same site....

 as a result of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

The current principal, Mark Wilson, replaced Dave Turnbull in July 2009

Notable alumni

• Mathias Dowle (drummer) & Shannon Fowler (guitarist) — TV personalities for Whitebait TV's "The Erin Simpson Show" 2009
• Greg Draper
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   — New Zealand football (soccer) player
• Guyon Espiner
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   — New Zealand TV personality and political editor for TVNZ
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• Stephen Fleming
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   — New Zealand cricketer
• Mike Gilchrist — New Zealand runner represent NZ at Commonwealth games in 1986
• Steve McCabe — founder member of bands The Gorillas and The Axemen
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  , founder and director of Sleek Bott recording, music and distribution group
• Bob Parker — current Mayor of Christchurch
• Bic Runga
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   — New Zealand singer
• Yulia Townsend
  Yulia Townsend
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   — Russian-born New Zealand singer
• The members of the band "Zed
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