Hoërskool Menlopark

Die Hoërskool Menlopark (colloquially known as Menlo or Parkies) is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high school situated in the suburb of Menlo Park in Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa.

The school was founded in 1963 by the painter Bettie Cilliers-Barnard. When established it had 12 classrooms and 372 students in grades 8, 9 and 10 (then called Standards 6, 7 and 8). Cilliers-Barnard also designed the school emblem.

Headmasters
List of headmasters at Die Hoërskool Menlopark.

Sport
The sports that are offered at the school are:


 * Athletics
 * Chess
 * Cricket
 * Cross country
 * Equestrian
 * Golf
 * Hockey
 * Mountain biking
 * Netball
 * Rugby
 * Squash
 * Swimming
 * Table tennis
 * Tennis

Notable alumni
In order of final year at Hoërskool Menlopark (date in brackets)
 * Jana Cilliers (1965), actress
 * Laurie Dippenaar (1966), founder FirstRand Group
 * Koos Kombuis (1972), Afrikaans writer, singer and songwriter (born André le Roux du Toit)


 * 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) - rugby union player
 * Reggie Holmes (1976) - squash player
 * Anneli van Rooyen (1978) - singer/musician
 * Rudolf Straeuli (1981) - Springbok and Lions rugby player, and Springbok coach during the Kamp Staaldraad affair
 * Jacques Olivier (1985) - rugby union player
 * André de Ruyter (1985) - businessman
 * Amalia Uys (2002) - Soap opera actress
 * Gideon Louw (2005) - swimmer in the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games
 * Rassie van der Dussen (2007) - cricketer
 * Heinrich Klassen (2009) - cricketer
 * Theunis de Bruyn (2010) - cricketer
 * Charné van Biljon (2011) - hockey player
 * Willem de Beer (2010) - painter
 * Inge Viljoen (2011) - heptathlon athlete
 * Lenize Potgieter (2012) - netball player
 * Lenke van Aarde (2012) - chess player
 * Suné Luus (2014) - cricketer
 * Jacques Snyman (2014) - cricketer
 * Delmi Tucker (2015) - cricketer
 * Stean Pienaar (2015) - rugby player
 * Bernard van der Linde (2018) - rugby player
 * Lohan Potgieter (2019) - rugby player
 * Hanrie Louw (2019) - field hockey player