St Paul's College is a Catholic secondary school for boys owned by the Marist Brothers and located in the central Auckland suburb of Ponsonby on a spacious 7.3 hectare campus.

[6][7] The college excels in sport, especially Rugby football[4] and in Polynesian and other cultural activities, notably in the annual ASB Polyfest competitions.

[10] The school roll has grown as the college continues "exhorting students" to "exam success" and "altruistic action.

In the 1890s they began teaching secondary classes there but it became evident that the Pitt St site was too small and noisy.

By 1900 negotiations were underway with Bishop Lenihan who arranged for the brothers to lease part of a block of land of 48 acres (10 hectares) near Cox's Creek in Ponsonby.

It was only on 4 September 1946 that the Marist Brothers had acquired the freehold of the St Paul's College Richmond Rd site.

[21] The school operated as St Paul's College after Queen's Birthday 1955 (from Tuesday 7 June) under the same motto "Confortare esto vir".

Many sons of former students of the Marist Brothers preferred to attend St Paul's in the following years, both because it was centrally located and because their fathers had been educated on the site.