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St. David's High School Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tinggi St. David 圣大卫中学
Address
Jalan Tanjung Bukit Baru, Malacca, 75150 Malaysia
Coordinates	2°13′16″N 102°16′34″E / 2.22106°N 102.276°E / 2.22106; 102.276
Information
Type	SMK (National Secondary School)
Motto	Truth and Honour
Religious affiliation(s)	Christian
Denomination	Anglican Church
School district	Central Malacca
School code	MEB2093
Principal	Lim Yeok Lee
Teaching staff	82
Forms	1-5
Enrollment	1484 (2022)
Language	Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil
Last updated: 30 November 2022

Saint David's High School (Malay: Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tinggi St. David; Chinese: 圣大卫中学) is a co-educational missionary secondary school in Bukit Baru, Malacca, Malaysia.

School history

Dr (Mrs.) Ferguson David from Anglican Diocese of Singapore, founded St. David's High School in 1912. She was also the founder of St. David's Hospital in Malacca; the hospital's service was ended and was replaced with a school, Sekolah Tinggi Cina. In 1956, Commander Hudson from the Christ Church Parish Committee had given a piece of land (555.5 acres) in Bukit Baru to be the site for this school. In the same year, the Director of Education (Dr F.J.A. Rawcliffe) with the permission from Allayarham Tun Abdul Razak, Minister of Education, started the project. The school was open by the end of the 1950s, but not in its actual campus; 160 Form One students met during the afternoons using the facilities of Malacca High School that year. The next year, four years after the project was started, a three-story building, including toilets and canteen, was ready and opened by the Governor of Malacca, Tun Hj. Abd. Malek bin Yusuf. A few additional classrooms would be added over the next few years.

Three years later, the Form 4 classes were started with 9 students in the art stream and 3 students in the science stream. In 1964, for the first time, 55 students sat for the Cambridge exam in this school. The Malacca state government gave a piece of land (222.5 acres) to the school as a field in 1964; two years later, in 1966, a hall and industrial art block were opened. On 25 September 1970, Deputy Director of Education Malaysia, Mr. Abdullah Sultan opened the opening of the ‘Seni Perusahaan' building. On 5 August 1975, the science block was opened by YB Mr. Chan Siang Sun, Malaysia's then-Deputy Director of Education. In 1989, the school started to accept female students, and in 1994, The Khoo Wing, consisting of four classrooms, was opened, removing the need for floating (or roving) classes.

References

1. ^ "Senarai sekolah". MOE (in Malay). Retrieved 2022-11-06.
2. ^ Long, Denny Wei Siong (2023-06-01). "Melaka's St David's school organising annual carnival after five-year hiatus". The Star (Malaysia). Archived from the original on 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
3. "BISHOP SEEKS $200,000 FOR NEW SCHOOL". The Straits Budget. No. 714. Straits Times Press Ltd. 1960-04-27. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
4. "Assembly hall for school". The Straits Budget. No. 738. Straits Times Press Ltd. 1966-12-07. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-04-10.

• Secondary schools in Malaysia
• Anglican schools in Malaysia
• Publicly funded schools in Malaysia