| Aurora College | |
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| Address | |
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234 Regent Street
Invercargill 9812 New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 46°25′52″S 168°22′59″E / 46.4312°S 168.3831°E / -46.4312; 168.3831 |
| Information | |
| Type | State Co-Educational Secondary (Year 7–13) |
| Motto | It's not just the stars that shine |
| Established | 2004 (formerly Mount Anglem College) |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 548 |
| Principal | Robyn Hickman |
| School roll | 597[1] (February 2024) |
| Socio-economic decile | 2E[2] |
| Website | www |
Aurora College is a state coeducational Year 7–13 secondary school located in Invercargill, New Zealand.
It is New Zealand's southernmost stand-alone secondary school, and second southernmost secondary school after The Catlins Area School in Owaka.
Aurora College opened in 2005, although it has a history extending back to 1912. It was formed from the merger of Mt Anglem College and Tweedsmuir Junior High School, on the former Mt Anglem site.[3] Mt Anglem College had operated for only six years, having opened in 1999 following the merger of Kingswell and Cargill High Schools on the existing Kingswell site.[4] Cargill High School was the successor school to Southland College (formerly Southland Technical College[5][6]) after the latter site become part of Southland Polytechnic in 1978.[7] Kingswell High School, which was established in 1971,[8][9] was built to the S68 plan which is characterised by single-storey classroom blocks of concrete block construction, with low-pitched roofs and internal open courtyards.[10]
| Southland Technical College (1912–67) | Tweedsmuir Intermediate / Tweedsmuir Junior High School (1943–2004) | ||||||||||||||||
| Southland College (1967–78) | |||||||||||||||||
| Cargill High School (1978–98) | Kingswell High School (1971–98) | ||||||||||||||||
| Mt Anglem College (1999–2004) | |||||||||||||||||
| Aurora College (2005–now) | |||||||||||||||||
Notable staff of Aurora College or its predecessor institutions include:
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People educated at Aurora College or its predecessor institutions include:
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