St Cuthbert's College, Auckland

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St Cuthbert's College

Motto	By Love Serve
Type	Private Single sex girls (NE, Year 1-13) with boarding facilities
Year established	1915
Address	Market Road, Epsom
Principal	Lynda Reid
School roll	1409
Socio-economic decile (10 is high)	10
Ministry of Education Institution no.
Website	http://www.stcuthberts.school.nz

St Cuthbert's College is an independent girl's school situated in Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand. The school covers New Entrants (four-year olds) and Year One to Year Thirteen (five- to eighteen-year olds (approximately).

The school is named after Scottish monk St Cuthbert and the 'houses' are named after British monasteries and other notable religious places: Dunblane (Yellow), Elgin (Green), Iona (Purple), Kelso (Blue), Lindisfarne (White) and Melrose (Red). In another tie with Scotland, the uniform is a version of Black Watch tartan.

St Cuthbert's is regarded as one of the best schools in New Zealand. It has regularly topped the academic ranking table based on Year Eleven (NCEA Level 1/School Certificate) and Year Thirteen (NCEA Level 3/Bursary) examinations and performs strongly in sporting and cultural encounters.

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The senior curriculum is based on mainstream academic subjects. At Year Nine and Year Ten, core subjects such as English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science are compulsory and are complemented by optional language and business subjects. At Year Eleven a student may drop social studies and science and can choose from three optional subjects. By Year Twelve, only English is compulsory and at Year Thirteen a student may take five subjects of her choosing.

Optional languages include Latin, French and Spanish. In the social sciences, Social Studies is compulsory at years nine and ten, and is split into the optional subjects of History and Geography at year eleven. Classical studies, Art History and media studies are also available from year twelve. Similarly, Business Studies is optional at years nine and ten and is split into Economics and Accounting at year eleven. Science subjects available are Chemistry, Physics and Biology and Behaviour Science at Year 12 only.