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'''Die Hoërskool Menlopark''' (colloquially known as '''Menlo''' or '''Parkies''') is a [[state school|public]] [[Afrikaans|Afrikaans medium]] co-educational high school situated in the suburb of [[Menlo Park, Pretoria|Menlo Park]] in [[Pretoria]] in the [[Gauteng]] province of [[South Africa]].
The school was founded in 1963 by the painter [[Bettie Cilliers-Barnard]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}} When established it had 12 classrooms and 372 students in grades 8, 9 and 10 (then called Standards 6, 7 and 8).<ref name="web"/> Cilliers-Barnard also designed the school emblem.{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}}
== History ==▼
== Headmasters ==
List of headmasters at Die Hoërskool Menlopark.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://menlopark.co.za/ons-skool/geskiedenis/ |title= Geskiedenis |trans-title= History |language= af |publisher= Hoërskool Menlopark |access-date= 20 October 2022}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
* G.P.L van Ziji (1963–1973) ▼
! Name
! Started
! Finished
* C.I.S. van der Merwe (1984–2013) ▼
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| 1963
| 1973
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| F. Gerber
| 1973
| 1980
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| F. Booysen
| 1980
| 1984
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| 1984
| 2013
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| S. Reynders
| 2013
| 2024
|-
| K. Hartman
| 2024
| present
|}
The sports that are offered at the school are:
* [[Sport of Athletics|Athletics]]
* [[Chess]]
* [[Cricket]]
* [[Cross country running|Cross country]]
* [[List of equestrian sports|Equestrian]]
* [[Golf]]
* [[Field hockey|Hockey]]
* [[Mountain biking]]
* [[Netball]]
* [[Rugby union|Rugby]]
* [[Squash (sport)|Squash]]
* [[Swimming (sport)|Swimming]]
* [[Table tennis]]
* [[Tennis]]
== Notable alumni ==
{{alumni|date=December 2023}}
In order of final year at Hoërskool Menlopark (date in brackets)
*[[Jana Cilliers]] (1965), actress
*[[Lauritz Dippenaar|Laurie Dippenaar]] (1966), founder [[FirstRand Group]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbesafrica.com/cover-story/2013/09/01/man-numbers-turned-50-74-million/|title=A MAN FOR ALL NUMBERS, WHO TURNED $50 INTO $74 MILLION|first=Forbes|last=Africa|date=1 September 2013}}</ref>
<!--*[[Jannie du Toit (singer)|Jannie du Toit]] (1969), singer and musician-->
*[[Calie Pistorius]] (1975), Vice Chancellor of [[University of Pretoria]]; now VC at [[University of Hull]], United Kingdom
*[[Stefan Swanepoel]] (1975), [[The New York Times]] bestselling author
*[[Marita van der Vyver]] (1975), author
*[[Johan Marais]] (1976) -
*[[Reggie Holmes]] (1976) -
▲*Anneli van Rooyen (1978) - South African singer/musician
*[[Rudolf Straeuli]] (1981) - [[South Africa national rugby union team|Springbok]] and [[Golden Lions|Lions rugby]] player, and Springbok coach during the [[Kamp Staaldraad]] affair
*[[Jacques Olivier (rugby player)|Jacques Olivier]] (1985) -
*[[André de Ruyter]] (1985) -
*[[Amalia Uys]] (2002) - [[Soap opera]] actress
* [[
*[[Gideon Louw]] (2005) -
*
* [[
* [[Charné van Biljon]] (2011) - hockey player
▲* [[Theunis de Bruyn]] (2010) - South African professional cricketer
*
*
* [[
▲* Lenke van Aarde (2012) - South African chess player
* [[Andell Loubser]] (2015) - rugby player
▲* [[Suné Luus]] (2014) - South African women's professional cricketer
* [[
* [[Bernard van der Linde]] (2018) - rugby player
▲* [[Delmi Tucker]] (2015) - South African women's professional cricketer
* [[
* [[Hanrie Louw]] (2019) -
▲* [[Lohan Potgieter]] (2019) - South African professional rugby player
▲* [[Hanrie Louw]] (2019) - South African field hockey player<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-27 |title=Die Hoërskool Menlopark se 2019 uitblinkers |url=https://www.awsumnews.co.za/regions/gauteng-pretoria/pta-east/die-hoerskool-menlopark-pta-east/die-hoerskool-menlopark-se-2019-uitblinkers/ |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=AWSUM School News |language=en-ZA}}</ref>
== References ==
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