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Houdatsu High School (宝達高等学校 - Houdatsu Koutou Gakkou) is a public general academic school in Houdatsu-Shimizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the smallest high schools in the prefecture with 208 students. It was founded in 1972 as a private school, and the first Headmaster was Matsuoka Masanobu.

The school offers three courses. A-course students intend to go on to University, B-course students are prepared for entrance to technical college, and C-course students take business classes and go directly into employment after high school.

School Clubs
The school is best known for its clubs. The school has a wide range of sporting and cultural clubs. It is unusual in having a golf club, which reached the final staged of the All Japan High School Golf Competition in 2009. It's Brass Band is its most succesful club, and regularly competes at regional level. Memebers of the club also perform at the Monteray Jazz Festival in Noto. The school's baseball team is also famous, due to the regional record loss of 0-60 to Sakura Gaoka High School.