St John's College, Hastings
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Hastings, Hawkes Bay New Zealand 
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| Coordinates | 39°38′22″S 176°51′22″E / 39.63944°S 176.85611°ECoordinates: 39°38′22″S 176°51′22″E / 39.63944°S 176.85611°E |
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| Type | State Integrated, Single-sex, Day, Secondary (Year 9-13) |
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| Denomination | Catholic |
| Established | 1941; 76 years ago |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 226 |
| Employees | ~ 35 (full time) |
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| Colour(s) | Maroon, Blue and White |
| School roll | 384(February 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 4K |
| Website | www.stjohns.school.nz |
St John's College is a State Integrated, Catholic, Day School for boys, located in Hastings, a provincial city in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
Founded in 1941 by the Marist Fathers, St John's College has a non-selective enrolment policy (although gives preference to students from Catholic families) and currently caters for approximately 450 students from Year 9 (3rd Form) to Year 13 (7th Form).
St John's College has a diverse, multicultural roll. In 2006 its ethnic composition was Pākehā 73%, Māori 23%, and Pacific 4% . The college excels in sporting and cultural activities. Academically, the school offers for senior years the National Certificate of Educational Achievement assessment system (NCEA).
St John's College is the oldest private/state integrated secondary for boys in New Zealand outside the traditional main centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin (Te Aute College, also in Hawkes Bay was previously the title holder but became coed during the 1990s).
St John's College was established in 1941, on Frederick St, Hastings (the current site of St Mary's Primary School). It was founded by the Marist Fathers in response to the lack of Catholic education for young men in Hawkes Bay. It was also to be a brother school to the already established all girls Sacred Heart College, Napier, some 20 km north.
Enrollment proved so popular that the school needed to expand, so in 1956, with an allotment of donated land, St John's College moved to its present site on Jervios St, Mayfair. Old boys recall that on the day of the move, they carried the school furniture, back and forth to the new premises over 3 km away, and still had to attend afternoon class. The roll grew more slowly after that. Part of the problem was the transportation of students from around the Hawkes Bay region as many students from Napier found it difficult to reach school before school bus lines were established. There were even calls to make both Sacred Heart and St Johns co-ed, to prevent Napier boys travelling to Hastings and Hastings girls traveling to Napier. Today this issue is non existent, although around 40% of St John's College students come from the Napier area.
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