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| Southern Cross Campus Te Kura Taki o Autahi | |
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| Coordinates | 36°57′51″S 174°48′59″E / 36.9642°S 174.8165°E |
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| Type | Composite (Years 1–13) |
| Motto | Inā Te Mahi He Rangatira (By Deeds A Chief Is Known) |
| Established | 1997 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 452 |
| Chairperson | Peter Parussini |
| Principal | Dr Samantha Smith |
| School roll | 1,425[1] (February 2024) |
| Socio-economic decile | 1B[2] |
| Website | southerncross.school.nz |
Southern Cross Campus (Te Kura Taki o Autahi) is a composite school that caters for students in Years 1–13 in the suburb of Māngere East in Auckland, New Zealand. The school (also referred to as 'SCC', 'The Campus' or 'The Cross') has deep ties to the Mangere East community by providing education, facilities, and programmes for the wider use of the whole school. It is a Māori and Pacific Islands ethnic school, with students of European (Pākehā), Asian, and other ethnicities as a 0.5% minority.
Southern Cross Campus is a fairly new school to Auckland, by being an institute amalgamated with three previous schools in the area: Southern Cross Primary School, Mangere Intermediate School, and Nga Tapuwae College. Southern Cross Campus was founded by Terry Bates (MA (Hons), MPhil (Hons), DipTchg (NZ)), the first Campus Director of the school. It now comprises four schools: Southern Cross Junior School (Primary, Years 1–6), Southern Cross Middle School (Intermediate, Years 7–9), Southern Cross Senior School (Years 9–13), and Te Kura Māori o Ngā Tapuwae (a total-immersion school for Māori-language education, Years 1–13).
In 2019, it was announced that after 13 years as Principal, Mr Robin Staples would retire at the end of Term 1 in the 2020 school year. He was succeeded at the beginning of Term 2 by Dr Samantha Smith, a former associate principal at Massey High School.
- ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.