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==Controversy and incident==
==Controversy and incident==
===River Valley High School murder===
===River Valley High School murder===
{{Main|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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lam |first1=Lydia |title=Teenager charged with murdering fellow student at River Valley High School |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/teenager-charged-murder-schoolmate-river-valley-high-school-15251294 |access-date=20 July 2021 |work=CNA |date=20 July 2021 |archive-date=26 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726052230/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/teenager-charged-murder-schoolmate-river-valley-high-school-15251294 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Singapore shocked by killing of boy, 13, at school |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57897762 |access-date=20 July 2021 |work=BBC |date=20 July 2021 |archive-date=2 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602065321/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57897762 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lam |first1=Lydia |title=Teenager charged with murdering fellow student at River Valley High School |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/teenager-charged-murder-schoolmate-river-valley-high-school-15251294 |access-date=20 July 2021 |work=CNA |date=20 July 2021 |archive-date=26 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726052230/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/teenager-charged-murder-schoolmate-river-valley-high-school-15251294 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Singapore shocked by killing of boy, 13, at school |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57897762 |access-date=20 July 2021 |work=BBC |date=20 July 2021 |archive-date=2 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602065321/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57897762 |url-status=live }}</ref>


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River Valley High School
立化中学
Sekolah Tinggi River Valley
River Valley High School crest.svg
Address
6 Boon Lay Avenue
Boon Lay 649961
Singapore
Information
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

For more information, see: 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]

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