Long Bay College
Address
Ashley Avenue
Long Bay
Auckland 0742
New Zealand
Coordinates36°41′26″S 174°44′28″E / 36.690653°S 174.741025°E / -36.690653; 174.741025
Information
Funding typeState
Motto"Personal excellence for global success."
Established1975[1]
Ministry of Education Institution no.27
PrincipalCJ Healey
Years offered9–13[2]
GenderCo-educational
School roll1602[3] (April 2023)
Socio-economic decile10Z[4]
Websitewww.longbaycollege.com

Long Bay College is a state co-educational secondary school located in Torbay, a suburb of the North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand. The decile 10 school serves Years 9 to 13, and has 1602 students as of April 2023.[3] Christopher (CJ) Healey is the school's current principal.[5] Long Bay College has a large zone boundary including the upper east coast bays, Brookfield, Albany, Albany heights, Redvale, Coatesville, Paremoremo and Brighams creek. Long Bay College in NCEA school exams 88.5% of students passed in Level 1 year 11 a 2.8% decrease compared to last year, 89.6% of students passed in Level 2 year 12 a 3.5% decrease compared to last year, 88.4% of students passed in Level 3 year 13 a 4.5% increase compared to last year, 76.1% of students entered universities a 0.7% decrease compared to last year.

History

Long Bay College first opened in 1975. The first principal of Long Bay College was Ian Sage, who then had a street directly leading from the school named after him - Ian Sage Avenue. Like most of New Zealand state secondary schools in the 1970s, the school was built to the S68 design, characterised by single-storey classroom blocks with masonry walls, low-pitched roofs with protruding clerestory windows, and internal open courtyards.[6]

Enrolment

On the August 2018 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, Long Bay College had 1408 students, including 154 international students. The school roll's gender composition was 51% male and 49% female, and its ethnic composition was 52% New Zealand European (Pākehā), 28% Other European, 8% Asian, 6% Māori, 2% Pacific Islanders, and 5% Other.[7]

Principals

  • Mr CJ Healey – Current principal since 2017[8]
  • Mr Russell Brooke – 2008 to 2017
  • Mrs Stephanie Norrie – 2000 to 2008
  • Mr Derek Stubbs – 1992 to 2000
  • Mr Ian Sage – Foundation Principal, 1974 to 1991

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ The school's 25th jubilee took place in 2000. "Jubilees & reunions - Long Bay College". Education Gazette New Zealand. 78 (5). 29 March 1999.
  2. ↑ "Ministry of Education - Long Bay College". Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  4. ↑ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Leadership Team". Long Bay College. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Catalogue of Standard School Building Types" (PDF). Christchurch: Ministry of Education. August 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "Long Bay College Education Review". Education Review Office. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  8. ↑ "Leadership Team". Long Bay College. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  9. ↑ "Bridgette Armstrong". Ultimate NZ Soccer. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  10. ↑ Ruane, Jeremy. ""Army" Keen To Maintain The Family Tradition". Soccer. SportsWeb. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  11. ↑ Maddaford, Terry (11 August 2007). "Soccer: Another Armstrong aims high". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  12. ↑ Maddaford, Terry (9 December 2010). "Soccer: Hicks finds a place in the country". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  13. ↑ Dunlop, Ryan. "Sowing seeds of success: One million views, a $30,000 scholarship and excellence endorsement". www.nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  14. ↑ "Long Bay College Celebrates Mr Paul Bourdōt's 34 years of teaching excellence". Long Bay College. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
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