Ashburton College

Ashburton College is naturally zoned by the school's relative isolation (the nearest alternative state secondary school is Mount Hutt College, 35 km away in Methven), therefore does not need to operate an enrolment scheme. The school has an effective service area of the entire township of Ashburton and much of the coastal half of Mid-Canterbury, with Mount Hutt College in Methven, Ellesmere College in Leeston, Geraldine High School in Geraldine, and the Pacific Ocean bounding the Ashburton College service area to the west, north, south and east respectively.{{cite web |url= http://nzschools.tki.org.nz/ |title= eLearning Schools Search |publisher= Te Kete Ipurangi |access-date= 19 January 2013}}. Searching for Ashburton College, and then selecting "Show Transport Entitlement Zone" will show the effective area.

At the April 2013 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, the school had 1173 students enrolled, including twelve international students. Fifty-one percent of students were male and 49 percent were female. Seventy-seven percent of students identified as New Zealand European (Pākehā), ten percent as Māori, four percent as Pasifika, three percent as Asian, and six percent as another ethnicity.{{cite web|url=http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports/Ashburton-College-06-08-2013 |title=Ashburton College Education Review |date=6 August 2013 |publisher=Education Review Office |access-date=11 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402235534/http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports/Ashburton-College-06-08-2013 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |df=dmy }}

As of {{NZ school roll data|3=y}}, Ashburton High School has roll of {{NZ school roll data|351|y}} students, of which {{NZ school roll data|351m|y}} ({{Decimals|{{formatnum:{{NZ school roll data|351m|y}}|R}}/{{formatnum:{{NZ school roll data|351|y}}|R}}*100|1}}%) identify as Māori.{{NZ school roll data|4=y}}

As of {{NZ school equity index data|203||y|||}}, the school has an Equity Index of {{NZ school equity index data|351|y||||}},{{NZ school equity index data|28|||y||}} placing it amongst schools whose students have {{NZ school equity index data|351b|y||||}} socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 5 and 6 under the former socio-economic decile system).{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=School Equity Index Bands and Groups |url=https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/data-services/guidelines/school-equity-index-bands-and-groups |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.educationcounts.govt.nz |language=en-NZ}}

In 2012 Ashburton College was first equal in The Clean Green Business Award, won the Large Business Award and was also named the Overall Supreme Award winner in the Ashburton Business Association biennial business awards.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

In 2008, The Education Review Office ranked the school the top in the country for the promotion of male's learning.[http://www.ashburtonguardian.co.nz/index.asp?articleid=11458 High praise for learning plan]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Statistics from the 2008 NCEA results ranked the school fifth in performance out of the 19 decile seven to nine schools.[http://www.ashburtonguardian.co.nz/index.asp?articleid=11214 Schools shine in NCEA]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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{{main category|People educated at Ashburton College}}

• Paul Ackerley – Olympic gold medal-winning hockey player
• Simon Barnett – radio and television personality
• Doug Bruce – All Black rugby player (1974–78) and coach of Canterbury
• Denis Cameron – All Black rugby player (1960)
• Jack Kelly – All Black rugby player (1949–54)
• Bruce McPhail – All Black rugby player (1959)
• Robyn Malcolm – television actress
• Simon O'Neill – tenor
• Brent Pope – Irish media personality
• Alan Robilliard – All Black rugby player (1924–28)
• Hayden Roulston – Olympic silver medal cyclist

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The Ashburton Astronomy Group Observatory is situated in the grounds of Ashburton College. The building and equipment is owned by the college but administered and maintained by the AAG.

The primary instrument in use is a 130-year-old equatorially mounted 230mm With-Browning newtonian reflector telescope. The observatory is of the roll-off-roof variety.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150610222151/http://www.ero.govt.nz/Early-Childhood-School-Reports/School-Reports?profileid=351 Education Review Office (ERO) reports]
• [http://www.ashburtoncollege.school.nz Ashburton College Website]
• [http://www.ashcollalumni.co.nz Ashburton College Alumni Website]

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Category:Secondary schools in the Canterbury Region

Category:New Zealand secondary schools of S68 plan construction

Category:Ashburton, New Zealand

Category:Educational institutions established in 1965

Category:1965 establishments in New Zealand