The Auckland Franciscan Friary and Retreat Centre is just across Monte Cecilia Park from the college.

[5] A Discalced Carmelite Monastery (under the patronage of the Holy Family and St Thomas, Apostle) is directly opposite the college on Mt Albert Rd.

From the scholasticate, which was established in 1943, the young teachers had to travel to the Marist school in Vermont St, Ponsonby.

In 1957 the scholasticate was removed to new buildings erected on land (called Monte Cecelia) purchased from the Sisters of Mercy behind and adjacent to the college site.

In 1979 Marcellin Hall became a Pastoral Centre for personal renewal, theological reflection and apostolic effectiveness with residential courses, seminars and retreats there conducted by a community of nuns, priests and brothers.

From the early 1970s, population drift coinciding with, and to some extent due to, the construction of the nearby Auckland motorway system, led to a dramatic fall off in pupils.

[16] Academically, the school offers for senior years the National Certificate of Educational Achievement assessment system (NCEA).