Rongotai College


Rongotai College is a state single-sex boys' secondary school in the southeastern suburb of Rongotai, Wellington, New Zealand. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has 622 students as of July 2015.
About 40 per cent of the students are of European heritage, 20 per cent identify as Pasifika, and 15 per cent Maori, and there are various Middle Eastern, Asian and African students.
A highlight for the school is the annual McEvedy Shield athletics event.

Location

The school stands on the isthmus separating Lyall Bay and Cook Strait to the south from Evans Bay on Wellington Harbour to the north. It thus has the sea on two sides, and this gives it a particularly bracing microclimate, with gusty winds from the north and, in winter, icy blasts from the south. It is bounded to the east by Wellington Airport. Wellington's city centre is a few kilometres to the north-west.

History

Rongotai College was opened in 1928 with Mr Fritz Martyn Renner as its first headmaster and a teaching staff of seven. It was started as an "overspill" for Wellington College, which was overstretched, and Rongotai became the new school for Wellington boys in the eastern suburbs.
Rongotai College originally accepted enrolments from students of Intermediate School age. However, when Evans Bay Intermediate School opened its doors in 1964, the school became purely a secondary school, catering for young men in what are now called years 9 to 13.
The Assembly Hall, known as the Renner Hall, was opened in 1966 and is named after the founding headmaster.

Achievement

The 2013 ERO report was favourable whilst pointing out areas for improvement, for example in monitoring achievement and attendance levels.

School leadership

Principals

Houses

The four houses at Rongotai College are named after the school's first four headmasters,
Dates denote period enrolled as student

The Arts

Basketball