Long Bay College

Long Bay College
Address
Ashley Avenue Long Bay Auckland 0742 New Zealand
Coordinates	36°41′26″S174°44′28″E / 36.690653°S 174.741025°E / -36.690653; 174.741025
Information
Funding type	State
Motto	"Personal excellence for global success."
Established	1975 [1]
Ministry of Education Institution no.	27
Principal	CJ Healey
Years offered	9–13 [2]
Gender	Co-educational
School roll	1,755 [3] (November 2024)
Socio-economic decile	10Z [4]
Website	www.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 1,755 students as of November 2024. ^[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.

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]

In 2017 a fire destroyed the college's woodwork block. ^[7]

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. ^[8]

As of November 2024, Long Bay College has roll of 1,755 students, of which 155 (8.8%) identify as Māori. ^[3]

As of 2024, the school has an Equity Index of 422, ^[9] placing it amongst schools whose students have few socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 8 and 9 under the former socio-economic decile system). ^[10]

Principals

• Mr CJ Healey – Current principal since 2017 ^[11]
• 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

• Bridgette Armstrong – played for the New Zealand women's national football team, attended Long Bay College. ^{[12] [13] [14]}
• Andrew Papas – member of the boyband Titanium.
• Paul Wiseman – spin bowler and played international cricket for New Zealand.
• Jason Hicks – footballer ^[15]
• Tayla Alexander – singer ^[16]

Gallery

• 
  Long Bay College former sign and slogan
• 
  s68 design classroom block in LBC
• 
  Current (L) and all former principals of the college ^[17]

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. "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
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. Shrimpton, Wilhelmina; Wong, Simon (24 February 2017). "Large fire at Long Bay College". Newshub. Archived from the original on 23 February 2017.
8. "Long Bay College Education Review". Education Review Office. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
9. "New Zealand Equity Index". New Zealand Ministry of Education.
10. "School Equity Index Bands and Groups". www.educationcounts.govt.nz. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
11. "Leadership Team". Long Bay College. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
12. "Bridgette Armstrong". Ultimate NZ Soccer. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
13. Ruane, Jeremy. ""Army" Keen To Maintain The Family Tradition". Soccer. SportsWeb. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
14. Maddaford, Terry (11 August 2007). "Soccer: Another Armstrong aims high". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
15. Maddaford, Terry (9 December 2010). "Soccer: Hicks finds a place in the country". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
16. Dunlop, Ryan. "Sowing seeds of success: One million views, a $30,000 scholarship and excellence endorsement". www.nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
17. "Long Bay College Celebrates Mr Paul Bourdōt's 34 years of teaching excellence". Long Bay College. Retrieved 14 May 2019.

External links

• Long Bay College website
• Education Review Office (ERO) report