Marcellin College, Auckland
| Marcellin College | |
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| Address | |
| 617 Mt Albert Road, Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 36°54′39″S 174°45′59″E / 36.9108°S 174.7665°ECoordinates: 36°54′39″S 174°45′59″E / 36.9108°S 174.7665°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Integrated secondary (year 7-13) Roman Catholic Co-Ed |
| Motto | Optima Quaere (Seek The Best) |
| Established | 1958; 59 years ago |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 63 |
| Principal | Jan Waelen |
| School roll | 537(February 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 2F |
| Website | www.marcellin.school.nz |
Marcellin College is an Catholic, integrated, co-educational college in Hillsborough, Auckland, New Zealand for students in Year 7 to Year 13. The college was founded by the Marist Brothers in 1958 as a school for boys only. The school is located on spacious and beautiful grounds which had been part of the Pah estate. It has an extensive woodland on its southern and western boundaries. Most of the former Pah estate contiguous with Marcellin College is now owned by the Auckland Council and is maintained as a park known as "Monte Cecilia Park." The Auckland Franciscan Friary and Retreat Centre is just across Monte Cecilia Park from the college. A Discalced Carmelite Monastery (under the patronage of the Holy Family and St Thomas, Apostle) is directly opposite the college on Mt Albert Rd.
The college was established in 1958, for boys, by the Marist Brothers as a normal school for the training of Brothers as teachers in intermediate classes. Until 1958 the site of the college had been occupied by the Marist Brothers scholasticate. From the scholasticate, which was established in 1943, the young teachers had to travel to the Marist school in Vermont St, Ponsonby. This was expensive and inconvenient. In 1957 the scholasticate was removed to new buildings erected on land (called Monte Cecelia) purchased from the Sisters of Mercy behind and adjacent to the college site. A new building called Marcellin Hall was built for the training of Marist Brothers. This opened in 1961. In 1979 Marcellin Hall became a Pastoral Centre for personal renewal, theological reflection and apostolic effectiveness with residential courses, seminars and retreats there conducted by a community of nuns, priests and brothers. This building was later demolished.
The first building of the school was a block of four classrooms and when the college commenced in 1958 it had only two year levels, years 7 and 8 - then called Forms 1 and 2. The staff of the scholasticate acted as the teachers until the College was staffed independently. The College was soon operating as a full secondary school. The need to devote resources to the new school considerably stretched the Marist Brothers and they had to reduce staff or increase class sizes at some other schools.
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