Last updated October 2026
Longburn Adventist College is a state-integrated, co-educational secondary school for Years 7 to 13 at 100 Walkers Road, Longburn, Palmerston North. It opened in 1908 and had 220 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply. The school’s site describes a Christian life built on its Adventist special character, with chapel, daily devotions, weeks of worship, Bible study and community service, and an intermediate programme for younger students. It runs LAC House, a co-ed boarding house where boarders live seven days a week, and takes international students as day students or boarders, with host families.
At a glance
- Principal
- Maria Cokanasiga (Acting)
- Address
- 100 Walkers Road, Longburn, Palmerston North
- Phone
- 06 354 1059
Home zone
No home zone: any student can apply to enrol. If more students apply than there are places, the school decides how places are offered.
NCEA results
School leavers with NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with all New Zealand school leavers.
This school New Zealand
School leavers are students who left school that year, whatever year level they left from.
Who goes here
Share of the 220 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
16 international students
MELAA: Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
Stand-downs and suspensions
Cases per 1,000 students in 2025, adjusted for the ages of the school’s students, compared with all New Zealand schools.
Suspensions: fewer than 5 cases in 2025, so no rate is shown.
These measure how a school responds to behaviour, and schools set their own thresholds, so they are not a measure of how students behave.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from May 2024. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well students experience a local curriculum that reflects the school’s culture, responds to their strengths and needs, and meaningfully includes te ao Māori.
ERO noted a values-based, relationship-focused setting shaped by the school’s Adventist character, students who are well known by their teachers, staff committed to the school’s vision and to growing their skills together, and a wide mix of languages and cultures that are recognised and celebrated.
From here the school plans to keep refining its local curriculum, improve how it tracks and responds to each student’s strengths and needs, help teachers do this consistently, further embed its Te Tiriti o Waitangi goals, and strengthen learning partnerships between students, whānau, the school and the community.
Read the ERO reports for Longburn Adventist College
Enrolling
As a state-integrated school, it gives preference of enrolment to families with a particular or general connection to its Adventist special character, which the school chaplain assesses, and it also has a limited number of non-preference places.
Families complete the enrolment application pack, and those offered a place receive an acceptance letter and a form committing them to pay attendance dues.
International students apply through the school’s separate international enrolment process.
Schools nearby
In Longburn Palmerston North
Longburn Adventist College is in Longburn Palmerston North. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Longburn Palmerston North guide →Questions parents ask
Is Longburn Adventist College zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 13.
How many students go there?
220 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
It may. It is not in the donation scheme, so it can ask families for donations.
What is its Equity Index?
474. The Ministry of Education’s Equity Index estimates the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, from 344 (fewest) to 569 (most). It is used to share out funding, not as a measure of quality.
How did its school leavers do in NCEA?
In 2025, 79.4% of its school leavers had NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with 77.8% of all New Zealand school leavers.
School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 24 Oct 2026 (CC BY 4.0). NCEA results, roll history and stand-downs: Education Counts, school leavers 2023 to 2025, stand-downs 2025, rolls 2021 to 2025 (CC BY 4.0). Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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