Whanganui City College | |
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Coordinates | 39°55′54″S175°02′45″E / 39.9316°S 175.0458°E |
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Funding type | State |
Motto | Superanda Omnia Ferendo (By work, all things can be overcome) |
Established | 1911 |
Ministry of Education Institution no. | 187 |
Principal | Peter Kaua |
Years offered | 9–13 |
Gender | Coeducational Secondary School |
School roll | 316 [1] (March 2025) |
Socio-economic decile | 2E [2] |
Website | www |
Whanganui City College [3] is located in Ingestre Street, Whanganui. It became Wanganui City College in 1994. It was formerly the Wanganui Technical College established in 1911 and it became Wanganui Boys' College in 1964.
As of March 2025, Whanganui City College has a roll of 316 students, of which 227 (71.8%) identify as Māori. [1]
As of 2025, the school has an Equity Index of 550, [4] placing it amongst schools whose students have the most socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 1 and 2 under the former socio-economic decile system). [5]
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The school was established in 1911, an amalgamation of the Wanganui Technical School of Design (est. 1892) and Victoria Avenue District High School. [6]
Wanganui Technical College became Wanganui Boys' College from 1964.