One School, Our School

Pompallier Catholic College is a year 7 - 13 co educational school.


560 students attend PCC and with Pompallier being a Decile 7 school it places in some of the top schools in all of northland.


Pompallier College is named after Bishop Jean Baptise Pompallier who led the first group of Catholic Missionaries to New Zealand, arriving in the Hokianga with Fr Servant and Br Michel a Marist Priest and Brother in 1838. He was the first Catholic Bishop of New Zealand.
The College was founded in 1971 after fund-raising among Northland parishes. It started as a private Boys' Boarding School owned and administered by the Society of Mary. Responding to local needs and changing circumstances, the College became co-educational in 1977, closed the boarding facility in 1981 and in the same year became a State-integrated Secondary school owned by the Diocese of Auckland and administered by a Board of Trustees. An Attached Intermediate was opened in 1995 and Form 1-7 status was achieved in 1997. It is now known as a Year 7-13 State integrated co-educational Secondary School.


The Principal Is Mrs Madeleine Armstrong.





With the School Roll growing each year the teachers appoint what we call head prefects.


The Head Prefects for 2008 are


Head Boy: Joel Davis-Goff


Head Girl: Maaike McKernan


And with 11 other prefects they support students inside and outside of school




2008 Prefects

We are a Marist School as we were founded by Marist Fathers. This Means we do things in a certain way, following particually, the example of Mary. This is our Charism.

At Pompallier we Emphasiss three teaching characteristics of the marists:

• The uniqueness and value of the person
• The Importaince of christian community
• the involvement of parents in the education of their children

We aim at teaching students to:

• Become good and active Catholics
• Become Loyal and useful citizens
• Develop your Intelectual capacities

"Learning Excellence For Life"