Nan Chiau High School is a secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. It was founded as Nan Chiau Teachers' Training School in 1941 by Tan Kah Kee

Tan Kah Kee

Tan Kah Kee was a prominent businessman, community leader, and philanthropist in colonial Singapore, and a Communist leader in the People's Republic of China.- Early years :...

. Its first campus was built on a plot of land donated by Lee Kong Chian

Lee Kong Chian

Lee Kong Chian , was a prominent businessman and philanthropist and the founder of The Lee Foundation in Singapore. He was one of Southeast Asia's richest men in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the son-in-law of philanthropist Tan Kah Kee.-Early life:...

, at Kim Yam Road in River Valley

River Valley

River Valley is the name of an urban planning area within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.The River Valley Planning Area is defined by the region bounded by Orchard Boulevard, Devonshire Road and Eber Road to the north, Oxley Rise and Mohamed Sultan Road to the east, Martin...

. In 1947 the school became Nan Chiau Girls' High School. In 1980 it adopted English as its main medium of instruction. Four years later, in 1984, it started to admit boys. In 2001, the school moved to its present premises in Anchorvale

Anchorvale

Anchorvale is a neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town, Republic of Singapore, and is located between Punggol River and Compassvale. The house numbers of the public apartment blocks in Anchorvale begin with the number '3' . These housing estates were fully completed by the Housing and Development Board...

, Sengkang New Town

Sengkang New Town

Sengkang New Town is a relatively young satellite residential town in the city-state of Singapore. Originally a fishing village, the area is presently undergoing rapid development under the ambition of the Housing and Development Board to transform it into a "21st century township". The town now...

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