Tsurumaru High School

Kagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru Senior High School (鹿児島県立鶴丸高等学校, Kagoshima Kenritsu Tsurumaru Kōtō Gakkō) is an upper secondary school in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is a co-educational public school.

Tsurumaru High School
Location
Kagoshima

Japan
Information
TypePublic senior high school, co-educational
Established1894(Middle School under the old system of education), 1949(Tsurumaru High School)
Grades1–3
WebsiteKagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru High School

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Tsurumaru High School used to be known as the two secondary schools under the old system of education: Kagoshima Prefectural Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School (鹿児島県立第一鹿児島中学校, Kagoshima Kenritsu Daiichi Kagoshima Chūgakkō) and Kagoshima Prefectural Daiichi Girls’ High School (鹿児島県立第一高等女学校, Kagoshima Kenritsu Daiichi Kōtōjogakkō).[1][2][note 1] Those schools became Tsurumaru High School in 1949. Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School was established in 1894 as 鹿児島県尋常中学校 (Kagoshima Ken Jinjō-Chūgakkō)[1][2] and the year is Tsurumaru's founding year.

This high school's name is derived from Kagoshima Castle also called Tsurumaru Castle[2]. After World War II, the Seventh Higher School Zoshikan (第七高等学校造士館, Daishichi Kōtō Gakkō Zōshikan) on the former site of Tsurumaru Castle was closed because of the Educational reform in occupied Japan.[note 2] People named the successor of Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School "Tsurumaru" after the site of the Seventh Higher School because they missed it.[2] The school emblem features a crane spreading its wings because Tsuru (鶴) means a crane in Japanese.

Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School is the rival school[1].

Notable alumni
Politics and Government
Academic
Culture

Surrounding area

Notes
  1. Under the old system of education in Japan, Middle School had a five-year course for boys aged 12 and over, and Girls' High School had a four or five-year course for girls at the same age. The five-year course's students could finish for four years to go on to the next stage of education. In some cases, the five-year course was shortened to four years because of World War II.
  2. The Seventh Higher School was absorbed into Kagoshima University under the new educational system.

References
  1. 猪熊建夫 (2019-11-27). 伝統高校100　西日本篇 (in Japanese). Japan: 武久出版. pp. 354–357. ISBN 9784894541337.
  2. 鶴丸高等学校百年史編集委員会, ed. (March 1994). 鶴丸高等学校 創立百年 (in Japanese). Japan: 鶴丸高等学校創立百周年記念事業委員会.

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