St Dominic's Catholic College

For the school in Kerala, India, see St. Dominic's College.

St Dominic's College, Henderson is an integrated college for girls in Year 7 to Year 13 located in Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand, 25 kilometres from downtown Auckland City.

St Dominic's Catholic College, Henderson
Location
29 Rathgar Road, Henderson, Auckland New Zealand
Coordinates	36.8691°S 174.6225°E / -36.8691; 174.6225
Information
Type	Integrated secondary (year 7–13) Single Sex-Girls Sch
Motto	Veritas – Truth
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1952; 73 years ago
Ministry of Education Institution no.	47
Principal	Anna Swann
School roll	791[1] (November 2024)
Socio-economic decile	5M[2]
Website	www.stdoms.ac.nz

The College was founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1952 in Northcote, Auckland. The school was transferred to Henderson in 1968. In 1982 the school was integrated into the State education system under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975.

History

The school was established by the Dominican Sisters, in order to serve the Catholic community of West Auckland, which had developed due to immigrants from Croatia (then Dalmatia), Ireland and Britain.^[3]

Notable alumnae

Main category: People educated at St Dominic's Catholic College

• Anne-Marie Brady (born 1966), Professor of Political Science, University of Canterbury
• Angee Nicholas (born 1993), lawyer and politician
• Margaret Wilson (born 1947), academic and former politician; first woman elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives^[4]

Notes

1. "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
2. "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
3. Devaliant, Judith (2009). "History Lessons". In Macdonald, Finlay; Kerr, Ruth (eds.). West: The History of Waitakere. Random House. p. 208. ISBN 9781869790080.
4. Lambert, Max (1991). Who's Who in New Zealand, 1991 (12th ed.). Auckland: Octopus. p. 700. ISBN 9780790001302.

References and sources

• Mary Augustine McCarthy OP, Star in the south: the centennial history of the New Zealand Dominican Sisters, St Dominic's Priory, Dunedin, 1970.
• St. Dominic’s College : silver jubilee, 1952-1977, The College, Auckland. 1977.
• 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.
• 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.