| St Peter's College Māori: Te Kura Teitei o Hāto Petera | |
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 St Peter's College (Bro. O'Driscoll Building, 2009) (constructed 1939) | |
| Address | |
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23 Mountain Road, Grafton , 1023 New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 36°52′3″S 174°46′8″E / 36.86750°S 174.76889°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State Integrated, boys secondary, years 7–13 |
| Motto | Latin: Amare et Servire (To Love and To Serve) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Catholic |
| Patron saint(s) | Saint Peter |
| Established | 1939; 85 years ago (original schools founded 1841 and 1857) |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 62 |
| Chairman | Craig Mulholland |
| Headmaster | James Bentley[1] |
| Years offered | 7–13 |
| Gender | Boys |
| School roll | 1294[3] (August 2024) |
| Socio-economic decile | 8P[2] |
| Website | www |
St Peter's College (Māori: Te Kura Teitei o Hāto Petera) is a Catholic secondary school for boys in the Edmund Rice tradition,[4] and dedicated to St Peter. It is located in the central Auckland area of Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. With a roll of over 1300 it is one of the largest catholic schools in New Zealand .[5] St Peter's College was established in 1939 as a successor of Auckland's earliest school (Mr Powell's School, established in 1841) and of St Peter's School, founded in 1857.[6][7] However, there was also another Catholic secondary school dedicated to St Peter, Hato Petera College or St Peter's Māori College, which existed for 90 years from 1928 until 2018 in Northcote.
The Outhwaite family, who acquired the Mountain Rd land around 1841, donated the site of St Peter's College.[8] The Christian Brothers provided staff for the college for 70 years.
St Peter's is the oldest existing Catholic boys' school in Auckland still on its original site.[note a] For nearly 50 years, the school had direct access to an adjacent railway station, specifically created for the college and known initially as the "St Peter's College station". The school was integrated into the state system along with 240 other New Zealand Catholic schools in 1982.[9]
- ^ Orejana, Rowena (24 March 2016). "New principal aims for new heights". NZ Catholic. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ^ "Edmund Rice Tradition", St Peter's College website (Retrieved 25 October 2022)
- ^ "Directory of New Zealand Schools". New Zealand Ministry of Education. February 2011. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
- ^ (Simmons 1982, p. 32)
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