Long Bay College
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Long Bay College is a state co-educational secondary school located in Long Bay, a suburb of the North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand. The decile 10 school serves Years 9 to 13, and has 1,968 students as of March 2026. Christopher (CJ) Healey is the school's current principal. 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.
In 2017 a fire destroyed the college's woodwork block.
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.
As of March 2026, Long Bay College has roll of 1,968 students, of which 155 (7.9%) identify as Māori.
As of 2026, the school has an Equity Index of 422, 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).
Principals
- Mr CJ Healey – Current principal since 2017
- 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.
- Andrew Papas – member of the boyband Titanium.
- Paul Wiseman – spin bowler and played international cricket for New Zealand.
- Jason Hicks – footballer
- Tayla Alexander – singer
Gallery
- Long Bay College former sign and slogan
- s68 design classroom block in LBC
- Current (L) and all former principals of the college
External links
- Long Bay College