Rangitoto College
| Rangitoto College | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
| 564 East Coast Road, Windsor Park, Auckland | |
| Coordinates | 36°44′16″S 174°44′10″E / 36.7378°S 174.7361°ECoordinates: 36°44′16″S 174°44′10″E / 36.7378°S 174.7361°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State co-ed Secondary (Year 9-13) |
| Motto | motto: Circumspice (Latin: "Look around") |
| Established | 1956 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 28 |
| Principal | David Hodge |
| School roll | 3249(February 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 10Z |
| Website | www |
Rangitoto College is a state coeducational secondary school, located on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Serving Years 9 to 13, Rangitoto has a school roll of 3249 as of February 2017, making it the largest "brick-and-mortar" school in New Zealand (only The Correspondence School is larger, with 4476 students).
Rangitoto College is located in Mairangi Bay, on the East Coast Bays on Auckland's North Shore. The easternmost field as well as many of the classrooms on the eastern side of the school have a view of the Rangitoto Channel as well as Rangitoto Island.
Rangitoto College opened in February 1956, with an initial roll of 180 Year 9 and 10 students (then known as Forms 3 and 4). A block and D block are the school's two original buildings; these are standard school buildings of the "1950s Single Storey" type, with long single-storey blocks of classrooms orientated east-west with a corridor connecting the classrooms on the south side.
Like many secondary schools in Auckland, Rangitoto operates an enrolment scheme to help curb roll numbers and prevent overcrowding. Rangitoto's enrolment zone, in which students residing are automatically entitled to be enrolled without rejection, covers approximately 12 square kilometres (4.6 sq mi), and includes Campbells Bay, Mairangi Bay, Murrays Bay, Pinehill, Rothesay Bay, Sunset North, and Windsor Park, and parts of Meadowood and Rosedale east of the Auckland Northern Motorway. Students residing outside the zone are accepted as roll places allow per the enrollment scheme order of preference and secret ballot.
At the September 2010 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, the school had 2871 students enrolled, including 195 international students. The school roll's gender composition was 51% male and 49% female, and its ethnic composition was 53% New Zealand European (Pākehā), 9% Chinese, 9% Korean, 7% African, 5% Māori, 4% South East Asian, 3% Indian, 1% Japanese, 1% Pacific Islanders, 1% other Asian, and 7% Other.
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