ACG Schools (formerly known as ACG Education) is a New Zealand-based private education company that operates schools and preschools in

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and Asia. Incorporated as a New Zealand Limited Liability Company in 1994 it established its first school in 1994; and now ACG Schools delivers education to over 4,700 students in three countries through its 10 campuses located in 4 cities. It is New Zealand's largest independent private schools group. It was acquired by

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in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.

History

Sir John Graham and Dawn Jones established Senior College of New Zealand, New Zealand's first school for senior students, in 1995. This was the founding school of the ACG group, which now comprises independent schools and vocational colleges around New Zealand. In February 2013, Waterman Capital took a 24% shareholding in ACG, and executive director of Waterman Capital Matt Riley joined the Board. Waterman was among the shareholders who agreed to sell ACG to Pacific Equity Partners. In May 2015, the

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released a statement that ACG had appointed

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and

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to run the sale process. On 17 September 2015,

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announced they had agreed to acquire ACG for an undisclosed sum. In April 2017, ACG Education announced their purchase of English language school, The Campbell Institute. On 1 July 2017 ACG Education purchased Intueri Education Group's seven New Zealand vocational colleges.

Schools

New Zealand Independent Schools

ACG has four independent schools in New Zealand. Three are in Auckland—

ACG Parnell College ACG Parnell College is an independent co-educational facility and is part of ACG Schools, whose New Zealand schools are members of the Independent Schools of New Zealand (ISNZ). The school is located in the suburb of Parnell in Auckland, New Ze ...

ACG Strathallan ACG Strathallan is an independent co-educational school located on the Hingaia Peninsula in Karaka, New Zealand, close to the Auckland Southern Motorway. It is part of ACG Education (formerly known as Academic Colleges Group) whose New Zealand ...

, and ACG Sunderland and one,

ACG Tauranga ACG Tauranga is a private coeducational day school located on the outskirts of Tauranga, New Zealand. The school is owned and operated by Auckland-based private education company ACG Schools (formerly known as Academic Colleges Group). The scho ...

, is in Tauranga. The schools are secular and co-ed and teach

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also offers the

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. ACG also has one preschool centre in Queenstown, Zig Zag Zoo. In 2018 ACG Senior College was closed and set to merge with ACG Parnell College. In 2019 ACG Parnell College opened its Senior Campus for year 12 and 13 students enrolled in the college. ACG Strathallan aerial shot

International Schools

* Australia International School Vietnam *

ACG School Jakarta ACG School Jakarta is an independent co-educational international school in South Jakarta, Indonesia. The school was established in 2004, and is a school for children from 3 to 17 years of age. Currently it has 500 students from 42 different natio ...

Awards

References

Additional sources

Private school prepares to triple its roll – Education – NZ Herald News

External links

Academic Colleges Group
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