Kavanagh College
| Kavanagh College | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
| 340 Rattray Street, Dunedin | |
| Coordinates | 45°52′27″S 170°29′47″E / 45.87413°S 170.496453°ECoordinates: 45°52′27″S 170°29′47″E / 45.87413°S 170.496453°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Secondary (Co-educational, Year 7-13) |
| Motto |
Latin: Ipsa Duce ('With Her As Our Guide') |
| Established | 1989; 28 years ago (original secondary schools: 1871, 1876, 1897 and 1976) |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 536 |
| Principal | Tracy O'Brien |
| School roll | 803(July 2016) |
| Socio-economic decile | 8P |
| Website | kavanagh.school.nz |
Kavanagh College is a Catholic, integrated, co-educational, secondary school located in central Dunedin, New Zealand. The school has a roll of approximately 900 students and was founded in 1989 as the successor of several other secondary (and one intermediate) schools the oldest of which was founded in 1871. Kavanagh is the only Catholic secondary school in Dunedin and is open to enrolments from throughout the entire city. The school's proprietor is the Bishop of Dunedin.
Kavanagh College began operations in 1989 on the former sites and in the former buildings of St Paul's High School, the Christian Brothers Junior School and St Dominic's College, between Rattray St and Tennyson St, these three sites being adjacent to each other. The college is named after the fourth Catholic Bishop of Dunedin John Patrick Kavanagh (Bishop, 1957–1985). Because of lack of space, the junior classes were accommodated at "south site" (formerly Moreau College) until 1993 when a new 18 classroom block was completed at a cost of $4 million. Further redevelopment in the 1990s saw the completion of a biology laboratory in an extended science block, the construction of a new auditorium accommodating 411 people and remodelled library, music studios and offices. In 2011, Kavanagh College expanded from its restricted main site by purchasing buildings and a carpark on the opposite side of Tennyson Street from Otago Polytechnic and thus increasing the area of the college by 25%. Two of the buildings were demolished, their sites becoming a green area used for school recreation. One of the buildings was kept and used for 5 classrooms. That building (on the corner of York Place) has a historic connection with the important New Zealand artist Colin McCahon as that was where he was trained.
On 25 October 2014, the College celebrated its silver jubilee (25 years) with a well-attended Mass at the Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin. This was also a celebration of the sesquicentennial of Catholic education in Dunedin (150 years), with all schools and parishes in the city taking part. At the end of the Mass, a plaque commemorating the three founding orders of Kavanagh College - the Dominican Sisters, Sisters of Mercy and Christian Brothers was blessed and was later placed at the college.
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