Kota Kinabalu High School, KKHS (

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, Malaysia.

School name

Kota Kinabalu High School had been established and given the name Jesselton Middle School in 1949. The following year, the school name was altered to North Borneo Overseas Chinese School. In 1960, the name was changed back to Jesselton Middle School. In August 1968, the school came to be known as Kota Kinabalu High School.

History

Early history

Kota Kinabalu High School (KKHS) was founded in 1949, is the first school established after the

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. The founder of this school consists of Datuk Wong Tze Fatt and a group of Chinese who are very concerned about the education system. Besides that, they also considering the Chinese primary school students did not have the opportunity to continue to attend secondary school on the spot after graduation. Initially, this school was a full-fledged Chinese school. After going through various development processes and strong support from the local community as well as cooperation from the

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, the school finally exists as national school consisting of staff and students of various races. In 1949, the temporary school building was the

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. In 1950, the site of the Chinese Consulate in Kota Kinabalu was borrowed as a temporary school building. In 1951, KK High School erected own school building at Tanjung Aru with a compound of 6.23 acres (2.532 hectares).In 1959, the school had a three-story building, library and science laboratory. In 1971, the board of directors decided to accept

subsidies and change from a private to a national-type restructured Chinese Secondary School (SMJK).

Development

In 1985, Lim Guan Sing, the Sabah Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Development officiated the laying of the Foundation Stone for the KKHS Building after receiving an allocation of eighteen acres of land from the Sabah state government in Penampang. In 1987, the school moved into a new campus of 18 acres located three and a half miles in Penampang. Datuk Chau Tet Onn has officiated the opening ceremony of a new campus of KKHS. In 1993, the school has been upgraded from a grade B school to a grade A school. Thanks to the efforts of school board members, teachers and students, the school hall was successfully established and officially opened by Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Mohd Salleh Tun Haji Mohd Said. In addition, a life skills workshop was built in 1997. In 2001, the school has successfully obtained approval from the

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to open lower form six classes of literary stream and to date. In 2008, Kota Kinabalu High School be honored the title ‘

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’ by the Ministry of Education.

References

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