Howick College
| Howick College | |
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| Address | |
| Sandspit Road Cockle Bay Auckland 2014 New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 36°54′26″S 174°56′20″E / 36.9071°S 174.9389°ECoordinates: 36°54′26″S 174°56′20″E / 36.9071°S 174.9389°E |
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| Funding type | State |
| Motto |
Inspiring a community of passionate learners. Whakamanawahia tētehi hapori o ngā ākonga hihiri |
| Established | 1974 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 87 |
| Principal | Iva Ropati |
| Years offered | 9–13 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| School roll | 2093(July 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 8P |
| Website | www |
Inspiring a community of passionate learners.
Howick College is a state co-educational secondary school located in the eastern Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Cockle Bay. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has a roll of 2093 students as of July 2017.
Howick College was established in 1974 to serve the Howick area of eastern Auckland. The school was built to the "S68" design, characterised by single-storey classroom blocks with reinforced masonry walls, low-pitched roofs, internal open courtyards and protruding clerestory windows.
The school abolished corporal punishment of students before it even opened, becoming one of the first schools in New Zealand to do so. Corporal punishment was abolished nationwide sixteen years later, in July 1990.
At the August 2012 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, Howick College had 1806 students enrolled, including 48 international students. The school roll's gender composition was evenly split: 50% male and 50% female; and its ethnic composition was 47% New Zealand European (Pākehā), 14% Other European, 12% Māori, 9% Asian, 7% Pacific Islanders, 5% Indian, and 6% Other.
Howick College has six school houses:
In the bro'Town première episode "The Weakest Link" (2004), one of the schools competing in the high school quiz challenge is named "Howick Beijing College", a reference to the Howick area's large Chinese migrant population. It should be noted that Howick College itself doesn't have a large Asian student roll: 14% (including Indian) compared to 33.7% for the Howick local board area.
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