David Kaunda National Technical Secondary School was founded in 1934 as Hodgson Training School by the British Colonial Government, with Mr. F. Hodgson as the first principal. It was opened to meet the needs of children of soldiers of the
Northern Rhodesia Regiment as a Trades School under the name Hodgson Training School to provide a variety of courses including
carpentry,
plumbing, brick-laying, metal craft,
metal work and
leather work. The school's name was changed to David Kaunda Secondary Technical School to offer
senior secondary school
education up to the
'A' levels in 1965. It was a boys school until 1993, when the school opened its doors to the first girls and has hitherto been a
co-education boarding school. In 1995, the first grade 12 girl students graduated. In 1999, the school's name, David Kaunda Secondary Technical School, was changed to David Kaunda National Technical High School, and then subsequently changed to David Kaunda National Technical Secondary in 2014 to reflect the acceptance of Grade 8s following the abolishment of basic and high schools. ==Selection==