Mount Aspiring College

Mount Aspiring College is a state coeducational secondary school in Wānaka, New Zealand. It was founded in 1986 after the division of Wānaka 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.

Mount Aspiring College
Te Kura o Tititea
Address
119 Plantation Road
Wānaka 9305
New Zealand
Coordinates44.6871°S 169.1359°E / -44.6871; 169.1359
Information
TypeState co-ed secondary (Year 7–13) with senior boarding facilities
MottoEnjoy Success
Established1986
Ministry of Education Institution no.533
ChairmanIan Hall[1]
PrincipalNicola Jacobsen
School roll1227 – April 2023[2]
Socio-economic decile10Z[3]
Websitewww.mtaspiring.school.nz

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.[4]

At the August 2015 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, the school had 789 students enrolled, including 39 international students. The school roll's gender composition was 51% male and 49% female. The ethnic composition was 88% European (Pākehā), 7% Māori, 3% Asian, and 2% Other.[5]

At the September 2019 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, the school had 1078 students enrolled, including 32 international students. The ERO report found

Mt Aspiring College’s performance in achieving valued outcomes for its students is: Developing.[6]

School houses

Mount Aspiring has four houses: Barker, Iron, Pisa and Roy. Each house represents a different mountain in the Wānaka area. The houses are each assigned a colour: Barker is green, Iron is red, Pisa is yellow and Roy is blue.[7] 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.

Controversies
  • In June 2023 a parent of two students at the school disagreed with a Mount Aspiring College rainbow Pride parade, encouraged students to wear black to rebel against the event, One Day before the parade a parent of the two students at the school made a homophobic comment on his public Facebook page. [8]

Principals
  • 1989–1998: Michael (Mike) Allison
  • 1998–2008: Maurice (Maurie) Jackways
  • 2008–2020: Wayne Bosley
  • 2020–2021: Dean Sheppard (acting)
  • 2021–present: Nicola Jacobsen

Hostel Program

The College operates a year 13 boarding program and intakes 30 students each year, the program is notable for its intensive outdoor pursuits program, which runs alongside daily time-tabled classes.[9]

The Mount Aspiring College Village consists of five custom-built flats, constructed in 1996.[10] Each flat is named after notable landmarks in the local area; Arawhata- named afterArawhata River, Avalanche- named after Avalanche Peak (New Zealand), Cascade- named after Cascade Saddle (Located in Mount Aspiring National Park), Liverpool- named after Liverpool Hut and Rob Roy- named after Rob Roy Glacier

Notable alumni

See also

References
  1. "SCHOOL BOARD".
  2. "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  3. "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  4. "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.
  5. "Mount Aspiring College Education Review". Education Review Office. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  6. "Mt Aspiring College Education review". Education Review Office. 5 September 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  7. "House system – Mount Aspiring College". Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  8. Caldwell, Olivia (20 June 2023). "Parent called for kids to wear black to school rainbow Pride parade". Stuff. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  9. "MAC Hostel Information". MAC Hostel Information. 15 May 2014.
  10. Logan, Kristine; Thomlinson, Margaret (2005). 1 2 5, Look Alive! A Celebration of 125 Years of Schooling in the Wanaka District. Wānaka, N.Z.: NK Pub. ISBN 9780473104832.
  11. "From Kerikeri to Invercargill: Where New Zealand's Tokyo Olympians went to school". Stuff. 17 July 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  12. du Plessis-Allan, Heather (22 February 2018). "Olympic medal a win for Mt Aspiring College". Newstalk ZB. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
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