Mount Aspiring College
| Mount Aspiring College | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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119 Plantation Road Wanaka 9305 New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 44°41′14″S 169°08′09″E / 44.6871°S 169.1359°ECoordinates: 44°41′14″S 169°08′09″E / 44.6871°S 169.1359°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State co-ed secondary (Year 7-13) with senior boarding facilities |
| Motto | Enjoy Success |
| Established | 1986 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 533 |
| Principal | Wayne Bosley |
| School roll | 832[1] (July 2016) |
| Socio-economic decile | 10Z[2] |
| Website |
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Mount Aspiring College is a state coeducational secondary school located in Wanaka, New Zealand. It was founded in 1986 after the division of Wanaka Area School into separate primary and secondary schools. The college, though normally a day school, operates a hostel beside the school grounds for 30 Year 13 students, who usually come to Mount Aspiring in order to attend its well-known Outdoor Pursuits programme.
The school has a reputation in New Zealand as a modern, dynamic institution. It is also noted for its rapid growth in its roll, usually attributed to the Outdoor Pursuits programme and the population explosion of Wanaka, and in its academic achievement.
Enrolment
Mount Aspiring College is naturally zoned by the school's isolation (the nearest alternative secondary school is Cromwell College, 55 kilometres away in Cromwell), therefore does not need to operate an enrolment scheme. The school's effective service area extends north to Makarora, east to Tarras and Queensberry, south to Cardrona, and west to the Southern Alps.[3]
At the March 2012 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, the school had 677 students enrolled, including 29 international students. The school roll had a highly skewed gender composition for a coeducational state school: 57% male and 43% female. The ethnic composition was 89% New Zealand European (Pākehā), 10% Māori, and 1% Other.[4]
Principals
- 1989-1998: Mr. Michael (Mike) Allison
- 1998-2008:[5] Mr. Maurice (Maurie) Jackways
- 2008-: Mr. Wayne Bosley
School Houses
Mount Aspiring has four houses: Barker, Iron, Pisa and Roy. Each house represents a different mountain in the Wanaka area. The houses are each assigned a colour: Barker is green, Iron is red, Pisa is yellow and Roy is blue. The houses compete during the year to win the house shield. Examples of activities are Cross Country running, Skiing, Swimming, Singing competition, 40 Hour Famine, Athletics and Tug of War. Before 2002, when the roll grew too large, the school had three houses, Wilkin, Clutha and Hunter, named after local rivers. Prior to that, there were only two houses, East and West.
See also
References
- ↑ "Directory of Schools - as at 2 August 2016". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
- ↑ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ "eLearning Schools Search". Te Kete Ipurangi. Retrieved 19 January 2013.. Searching for Mount Aspiring College, and then selecting "Show Transport Entitlement Zone" will show the effective area.
- ↑ "Mount Aspiring College Education Review". Education Review Office. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ↑ Mount Aspiring College newsletter, 16 April 2008