Longburn Adventist College
| Longburn Adventist College | |
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| Address | |
| 100 Walkers Road, RD 7, Palmerston North, 4477 | |
| Coordinates | 40°23′22″S 175°33′27″E / 40.3894°S 175.5575°ECoordinates: 40°23′22″S 175°33′27″E / 40.3894°S 175.5575°E |
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| Type |
State-integrated Day & Boarding |
| Motto | In Christ we educate, encourage and empower |
| Denomination | Seventh-day Adventist Church |
| Established | 1908 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 191 |
| Principal | Brendan van Oostveen |
| Years | 7–13 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| School roll | 239(July 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 5M |
| Website | lac.school.nz |
Longburn Adventist College is an integrated co-educational Christian school in New Zealand for years 7 to 13. It is located just west of Palmerston North in the Manawatu District in the small dairy town of Longburn. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
The college was founded by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1908 and was originally sited at Pukekura, near Cambridge. The founder principal was Pastor Frank Chaney from Massachusetts. He was the principal, and was responsible for the design and construction of the original school, built largely with volunteer student labour.
A decision was made to relocate the college to Longburn in 1913 to be closer to the centre of the country's population at that time. Initially the college at Longburn was known as the 'Oroua Missionary College'.
In the early days of the college, the focus was on training young people for missionary service and most students worked, as well as studied, to pay their fees. The college ran a dairy farm, commercial vegetable garden, glasshouses, a basket factory and a lampshade business and it was from these enterprises that students earned their fees. Subjects originally offered included building construction, agriculture, secretarial and Bible work.
Following World War II, secondary school classes were added to the courses offered at Longburn and in the 1960s the first year of a BA in Theology was offered. Primary teacher training was offered in the early 1970s until 1990. Up until the 1970s most Longburn students were boarders, but day students began to increase in numbers as local residents took advantage of the secondary schooling offered at Longburn.
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