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Marcellin College
Address
617 Mt Albert Road, Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand
Information
Type	Integrated secondary (year 7-13) Co-Ed
Established	1958
Ministry of Education Institution no.	63
Principal	Bro Dennis Fahey
School roll	721
Socio-economic decile	3
Website	Marcellin College website

Marcellin College is an integrated, co-educational college in Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand for students in Year 7 to Year 13. Marcellin College was founded by the Marist Brothers in 1958 as a secondary school for boys only. The school is located on spacious grounds which were formerly part of the Pah estate now known as Monte Cecilia. Most of the former Pah estate is now owned by the Auckland City Council and is maintained as a park (largely located in the suburb of Hillsborough.

In 1982 the proprietor of Marcellin College signed an integration Agreement with the Minister of Education and the college entered the State education system. However, it entered the state system as a co-educational secondary school because in 1982 the school incorporated the secondary department of a school for girls, St Benedict's College, Newton, which closed in that year. St Benedict's College had its origins in 1884 when the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart arrived in Auckland from Adelaide arrived in Auckland and opened their first school in a converted shop in Karangahape Road. They opened St Benedict's College near St Benedict's Church, Newton in 1886, and in 1898 a large new school was built on the opposite corner from the church. From the early 1970s, population drift coinciding with, and to some extent, due to, the construction of the nearby Auckland motorway system, led to a dramatic fall off in pupils. The secondary department merged with Marcellin College, and the primary department closed.

References/Sources

• E.R. Simmons, A Brief History of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, Catholic Publication Centre, Auckland, 1978 and In Cruce Salus, A History of the Diocese of Auckland 1848 - 1980, Catholic Publication Centre, Auckland 1982.
• St. Benedict’s College : corner East St. & St. Benedicts St., Newton, Auckland, New Zealand or Souvenir magazine St. Benedict’s College, 1980, The College, Auckland, 1980.

* Michael King, God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland 1997.

• Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006.
• Diane Strevens, MacKillop Women: The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Aotearoa New Zealand 1883-2006, David Ling, Auckland, 2008.