Rangitoto College is a state coeducational secondary school, located on the
North Shore of
Auckland
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,
New Zealand
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. Serving years 9 to 13, Rangitoto has a school roll of as of making it the largest "brick-and-mortar" school in New Zealand (only
The Correspondence School
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is larger, with students). Patrick Gale is the current principal.
Location
Rangitoto College is located in
Mairangi Bay, on the
East Coast Bays
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on
Auckland
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'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.
History
Rangitoto College opened in 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.
Enrolment
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 , and includes Browns Bay, 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.
As of March, 2021, Rangitoto College had 3284 students enrolled. Of the students, 1578 were
Pākehā
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/
New Zealand European, 1165 were
Asian, 198 were
Māori
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, 65 were
Pacific Islanders
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, 87 were
International Students
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In 2019, there were over 6 million internati ...
, 159 were
MELAA
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, and 32 students were from other ethnicities and demographics.
Rangitoto College has a
socio-economic decile
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A school's dec ...
rating of 10 (step Z), meaning it draws its school community from areas of highest socio-economic strata when compared to other New Zealand schools.
Recent principals
In mid-2005, principal
Allan Peachey
Allan Peachey (18 October 1949 – 6 November 2011) was a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament for Tamaki.
School principal
Before his election to Parliament, Peachey was employed as the principal of Rangitoto College, the largest ...
stood down in order to stand as a
National Party candidate for election to
Parliament
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. Alison Cleland took over as principal in the interim. As a result of Peachey's election as the
Member of Parliament
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for the
Tamaki electorate, David Hodge, a former student at Rangitoto College, was appointed as Principal in 2006, but left in 2017. Patrick M. Gale is the current principal.
Academic performance
Rangitoto College is a
decile 10 school, meaning that, as the ERO (
Education Review Office
The Education Review Office (ERO) (Māori
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Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture ...
) puts it, Rangitoto draws its students from an area of 'least socio-economic disadvantage'. The data show that it performs at, or above, the average level for decile 10 schools nationally. Like other decile 10 schools, Rangitoto performs better than schools from areas of greater socio-economic disadvantage.
Prior to
Bursary
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being replaced by the
National Certificate of Educational Achievement Rangitoto had at least one student recognised as New Zealand's top scholar in a subject between 2001 and 2003; in 2003 Rangitoto had three four top-scholars including top all-round Female
Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Co ...
Scholar
5 In 2006 a Rangitoto College student was named "Top Scholar in New Zealand" for the subject of history in 2006 based on the NCEA framework.
In 2013, 94.4 percent of students leaving Rangitoto College held at least NCEA Level 1, 89.5 percent held at least NCEA Level 2, and 76.3 percent held at least University Entrance. This is compared to 85.2%, 74.2%, and 49.0% respectively for all students nationally.
In 2021, Rangitoto College students collectively achieved 244 scholarship passes in the
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exams which included 34 "Outstanding" passes. Sixteen students gained four or more scholarship passes, with a further fourteen students gaining three scholarship passes. Six students gained Outstanding Scholar Awards (~60 nationwide) and one student, with ten scholarship passes, gained a Premier Scholar Award (Top ~12 nationwide). The Premier Award winner was also the Top Subject Scholar for Art History, Geography, and Statistics while one of the Outstanding award winners was the Top Subject Scholar for Health & Physical Education. This placed the school as the top scholarship school in
New Zealand
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for the fourth year in a row.
Notable alumni
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Amy Adams
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– member of parliament for the
Selwyn electorate
*
Marco Alexander – basketball player
*
Terenzo Bozzone – athlete
*
Claudia Bunge – New Zealand international football player
*
Graham Candy – actor/musician
*
Oliver Driver
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Television
Driver was the host of ''Let's Be Frank'', and the Creative Director of New Zealand's only alternative music television st ...
– actor/TV personality
*
Chloe Gong – author
*
Mikey Havoc
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Radio
Roberts first became ...
– media personality
*
Lizzy Igasan – hockey player
*
Anna Leat – New Zealand international football player
*
Alex Maloney
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Maloney is the sister of sailor Andy Maloney
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Sailing career
From the Murrays ...
–
Olympic
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sailor, silver medallist in the
49er FX
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class at
Rio 2016
)
, nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams)
, athletes = 11,238
, events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines)
, opening = 5 August 2016
, closing = 21 August 2016
, opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer
, cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...
*
Sean Marks – former basketball player in the NBA /
Tall Blacks, current GM for the
Brooklyn Nets
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*
Dean O'Gorman – actor, artist, photographer
*
Erica Stanford
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– member of parliament for the
East Coast Bays electorate
*
Corney Swanepoel
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–
Olympic
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Sports
Competitions
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** Summer Olympic Games
** Winter Olympic Games
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swimmer
*
Louise Upston – member of parliament for the
Taupō electorate
*
Anna Willcox-Silfverberg – skier and TV sports reporter
*
Tai Wynyard
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– professional basketball player; former college player for the
University of Kentucky
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;Bands
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Midnight Youth
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– band formed at Rangitoto College
*
The Naked and Famous
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– band comprising majority of members from Rangitoto College
References
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Educational institutions established in 1956
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1956 establishments in New Zealand