Linpark High School is a

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co-educational public boarding school situated on Claude Forsyth Rd, in Boughton, a northern suburb of

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. The school's curriculum has a technical bias, with courses in subjects such as motor mechanics and

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in addition to more traditional subjects such as maths and

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. Although it has boarding facilities, most students are day pupils, living locally. Originally an all-white school,the first black pupils were admitted in 1991.

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Photographs of Linpark High School from the mid-1970s (by Erich Dedekind)
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