Dunman High School

Dunman High School

Dunman High School (DHS) is an autonomous co-educational secondary school in Singapore. It is generally recognised as being one of the top schools and has always been the top co-educational secondary school in Singapore in terms of academic results. The school is located at Tanjong Rhu. Its Chinese name Démíng is a transliteration of Dunman, named after an English governor, Lord Dunman. The meaning of its name in Chinese is derived from a line in the Book of Rites which is a statement that has influenced the Emperors of the glorious Han, Tang and Song dynasties in Imperial China. Written in ancient and refined wenyanwen, reflecting traditional Confucian intellectual and moral scholarship, it can be crudely translated into modern English as the Dao to the greatest learning lies in understanding the brightest Virtues. Dunman High School is often confused with Dunman Secondary School, but is in fact a different school.