Macleans College
| Macleans College | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
| Macleans Road Bucklands Beach Auckland 2012 New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 36°53′00″S 174°54′55″E / 36.8833°S 174.9152°ECoordinates: 36°53′00″S 174°54′55″E / 36.8833°S 174.9152°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State co-educational |
| Motto | Virtue mine honour |
| Established | 1980 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 41 |
| Principal | Byron Bentley |
| Grades | Secondary |
| Enrolment | 2538(February 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 9Q |
| Website | www.macleans.school.nz |
Macleans College is a co-educational state secondary school located in Eastern Beach, Auckland, New Zealand. The school is named after the Scottish MacLean family who lived and farmed the land of the school and surrounding reserves, and the school emblem contains the castle from their family crest along with six waves which symbolise the seaside location of the school.Metro magazine placed Macleans College as the number one Auckland high school in 2010 among those in the Cambridge International Examinations system. In 2014, Macleans College ranked 2nd nationally in the Cambridge International Examinations.
The school was opened in 1980 by then Governor General Sir David Beattie with an initial roll of 199 students. The first principal was Colin Prentice, who later became director of World Vision in New Zealand, followed by his deputy Allan McDonald in 1989. In 2000, upon McDonald's retirement, Byron J Bentley, who holds a Master of Arts, became principal. In 2015, the school auditorium was renamed the 'Colin Prentice Auditorium' in honour of the late founding principal after his passing.
The school is named after the MacLean family. Robert and Every Maclean immigrated to New Zealand from Scotland, and they owned the land in Howick. The family farmed the areas of land that is the school's current location, as well as the surrounding government controlled reserves.
Upon admission, pupils are placed into one of the eight Whanau houses in Macleans College (Batten, Mansfield, Rutherford, Kupe, Hillary, Te Kanawa, Snell and Upham). These houses are named after significant New Zealander's, and the traits and achievements of this person influences the Whanau's environment, charity and what it encourages. The selection is random, unless the student has or had any sibling or parent attend the school wherein the student has an option to be enrolled in the same house, or be randomly placed in any of the other seven.
The Whanau House system at Macleans divides the school into houses of about 300 students each, with two form classes of 30 or so students for each year level, all from the same house. The Whanau system had previously been trialled at Penrose High School (now One Tree Hill College) by modifying existing buildings, but Macleans College was the first state school in New Zealand to be purpose-built around the system.
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