| Villa Maria College Māori: Te Whare o Meri | |
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| Coordinates | 43°31′45″S 172°34′03″E / 43.5292°S 172.5675°E |
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| Type | State integrated single-sex girls secondary (year 7–13) school |
| Motto | That you may learn to Prize what is of Value |
| Established | 1918; 106 years ago |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 326 |
| Principal | Deborah Brosnahan[1] |
| School roll | 827[2] (August 2024) |
| Socio-economic decile | 9Q[3] |
| Website | www |
Villa Maria College (Māori: Te Whare o Meri) is a single-sex secondary school in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was opened on 18 February 1918 with 14 pupils. It was founded by the Sisters of Mercy and served as a parish school when boys were admitted in 1921. From 1941 the school reverted to being a girls' college. Villa Maria College is a day school but it also had boarders between 1935 and 1979. In 1981, the college was integrated into the New Zealand state school system under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975 but its proprietors remain the Sisters of Mercy (through the Sisters of Mercy Trust Board).
- ^ "Schools with new principals", NZ Catholic, 10 March 2013, p. 4.
- ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.