Hiram Bingham High School (HBHS) is a secondary school in Rongorongo,

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It has boarding facilities.

History

Reverend William Goward created the school in 1900. It was previously operated by the

London Missionary Society The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed in outlook, with Congregational m ...

(LMS),Garrett, John. ''Where Nets Were Cast: Christianity in Oceania Since World War II''.

University of the South Pacific The University of the South Pacific (USP) is a public research university with locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania. Established in 1968, the university is organised as an intergovernmental organisation and is owned by the go ...

Institute of Pacific Studies (in association with the

World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most ju ...

), 1997. p
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, 9789820201217. and its original purpose was to train clergy for the KPS. John Garrett, author of ''Where Nets Were Cast: Christianity in Oceania Since World War II'', stated in its history that the school "struggled to align at least some of its standards with" that of King George V School, a government high school. In 1993 it was the only full secondary school operated by the KPC.Talu, Alaima (Sister). "Towards Quality in Education" (Chapter 21, Part IV, Social Issues). In: Van Trease, Howard (editor). ''Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati''. University of Canterbury Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and

Institute of Pacific Studies, 1993. , 9780958330008. p
241
Between 2008 and 2011 the number of students declined.

References

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