River Valley High School (Singapore)
| River Valley High School 立化中学 Sekolah Tinggi River Valley | |
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| Type | Government-aided Autonomous Special Assistance Plan (SAP) Integrated Programme (IP) |
| Established | 1956 |
| Website | www.rvhs.moe.edu.sg |
River Valley High School (RVHS) is a co-educational government autonomous secondary school in Boon Lay, Singapore. Founded in 1956 and originally located in River Valley, it is one of the Special Assistance Plan schools designated by the Ministry of Education in recognition of its heritage and excellence in education.[1][2] Since 2006, the school has been running a six-year Integrated Programme that allows students to skip the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examinations and proceed to sit for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examinations at the end of Year 6.
Controversy and incident
River Valley High School murder
A Secondary 1 student was murdered in the school's toilet by a fellow Secondary 4 schoolmate in July 2021, the incident also made domestic and international headlines.[3][4]
Footnotes
- ↑ 从师友经历 述说传统华校的转型与变迁, 联合早报网, 11 July 2017. (in en)
- ↑ River Valley High celebrates diamond jubilee, Channel NewsAsia. (in en-GB)
- ↑ Teenager charged with murdering fellow student at River Valley High School, CNA, 20 July 2021.
- ↑ Singapore shocked by killing of boy, 13, at school, BBC, 20 July 2021.