Contributing schools include: Pupils attend for years seven and eight.

At the end of year eight the majority of students move to Takapuna Grammar School, which is located next door.

The grounds are extensive and numerous groups make use of its facilities during the weekends.

The school is famous for having achieved the highest rate of students cycling to school in the Auckland Region, at about 200 of 500 students on a normal day, a results considered to be partly due to the environment around the school and the Lake Road cycle lanes.

[2] In 2010, after being nominated by Cycle Action Auckland, the school won the national Cycle Friendly Awards in the "commitment by a public organisation", sponsored by ASB Bank.