Hamilton's Fraser High School

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Hamilton's Fraser High School Te Kura Tuarua o Taniwharau
Motto	-
Type	State Co-educational Secondary School (Y9-13)
Year established	1920
Address	72 Ellicott Road, Hamilton
Principal	M S Elliott
School roll	1817
Socio-economic decile (10 is high)	5
Ministry of Education Institution no.	135
Website	http://www.fraser-high.school.nz formerly http://www.wave.co.nz/~hfhs/school.html

Hamilton's Fraser High School (HFHS) is a secondary school in Hamilton, New Zealand. The school began in 1920 as Hamilton Technical Day School (later amended to Hamilton's Technical High School in 1924). From its central city site on the Garden Place Hill, now occupied by Wintec, the school was an integral part of the growth and development of Hamilton. For the next 50 years, many of the pupils went on to become influential commercial, political, sporting and cultural leaders in Hamilton.

In 1970 the school moved to the northwest suburbs of Hamilton and was re-established as a comprehensive co-educational secondary school. At this time the school was called Fraser High School. The school took its name from the original Principal, Whampoa Fraser. In 1998 the name was modified slightly to Hamilton's Fraser High School to reflect their historical link to Hamilton Technical Day School, and to give a stronger geographical link to Hamilton. The Māori name of the school is Te Kura Tuarua o Taniwharau.

In 2001 the school suffered a huge loss when the nearly completed school gymnasium was burnt down by vandals. A newer and larger gym was built in its place thanks to large support from the community.

Hamiltons Fraser High School is the home to the country's last school-based cadet unit, which recently celebrated its 75th Jubilee celebration.^[1] The Hamilton's Fraser High School Cadet Unit provides on a rotating basis the duty of providing honour guards to the cenotaph on ANZAC Day, sharing this with the Hamilton City Cadet Corps, Hamilton Air Training Corps, TS Rangiri Sea Cadet Corps.

The principal of the school, Martin Elliott, caused some controversy over his use of obscenities during his ill-fated run for the Mayoralty of Hamilton.

Construction is slowly progressing on Ministry of Education funded new multi-million dollar technical block which will accommodate such subjects as soft and hard fabrics, catering and automotive.