Whangaparāoa College is a co-educational state secondary school on the

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. The school has a roll of students from Years 7 to 13 (as of ), including international students.

History

Prior to the opening of Whangaparāoa College, Orewa College was the sole secondary school operating on the Hibiscus Coast. Hibiscus Coast Intermediate School operated on the site now occupied by Whangaparāoa College. Announced in 2003, and initially named Stanmore Bay Secondary School, Whangaparāoa College opened on absorbing Hibiscus Coast Intermediate School. Brian O'Connell served as founding principal until 2012. As one of several modern high schools to open in the early 2000s alongside

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and Alfriston College, the school's facilities and technology used are leaders in the New Zealand education system, being only the third new high school to open since 1981. Whangaparāoa College positions itself as an environmentally aware site. Following O'Connell's departure, James Thomas served as principal from 2012. In mid-2021, Steve McCracken took over as principal.

Demographics

At the school's latest

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review in 2016, Whangaparāoa College had 1285 students enrolled. Fifty-two percent of students were female and forty-eight percent were male. Seventy-eight percent of students identified as

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(Pākehā), ten percent as

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, four percent as Asian, two percent as Pasifika, and six percent as another ethnicity. Whangaparāoa College has an

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rating of , placing it amongst schools whose students have socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to decile 7 under the former

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system).

Notes

{{Hibiscus Coast Educational institutions established in 2005 Secondary schools in Auckland Hibiscus Coast 2005 establishments in New Zealand