page_title: Kristin School
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kristin School / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Kristin's LIC building, located in Kristin School on the North Shore of Auckland.
context_page_description: Kristin School is a private co-educational composite school located in Albany, North Shore, New Zealand. Kristin is an IB World School with approximately 1663 students.
  The school was established in 1973 by a small group of parents, and is owned by the Kristin School Charitable Trust and is governed by trustees and governors appointed from both the school and the wider community.
  Kristin contains a Kindergarten and is divided into three separate schools - Junior, Middle, and Senior. Reflecting contemporary managerialism, each school has its own principal and an executive principal has overall responsibility to the Board of Governors.
context_section_description: At the end of 1972  St Anne's, a private school in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore, was forced to close. Concerned parents held meetings and decided to start a new school, which opened in February 1973, using the leased Methodist Health Camp at Campbells Bay. The initial roll was 42 children with a staff of five. Fees were $100 per term. Immediately a search was carried out to find a permanent home for the future. The school grew rapidly, and soon a suitable site was found at Albany, where Kristin opened in 1978 with a roll of 235. The roll in 2007 had grown to a total of approximately 1670 with students from at least 42 cultures.
caption: Kristin School's Library information centre built in 2004
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