[13] The school offers both the National Certificate of Educational Achievement assessment system (NCEA), and the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) for years 11-13.

[13] Also, relative to the college's EQI score, Pasifika and European/Pākehā students (in particular) left St Peter’s with an above-average proportion attaining UE.

St. Peter's has multiple groups with sister school Baradene College of the Sacred Heart including a Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Band, and Choir.

[13] Sports played by St Peter's included: archery, athletics, badminton, backgammon, basketball, chess, cricket, cycling, distance running, European handball, football, golf, hockey, lawn bowls, martial arts, mountain biking, pickleball, rowing (started 1941),[note m] rugby union, snow sports, softball, squash, swimming, table tennis, tennis, touch football, triathlon, volleyball, water polo and weightlifting.

[7] The teacher was Edmund Powell (who was a leading layman also involved in building St Patrick's Church, later consecrated as a cathedral), and classes were first held in his home in Shortland Crescent.

The Greek, Latin, French, Italian and German languages are taught in it, also Geometry, Mensuration, Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar etc ...

After addresses to the Bishop, the pupils went to the "paddocks" of Peter Grace Esq where "the sports for the youths consisted of feats of bat and ball, football etc.

[30] In about 1884, St Peter's started to use a larger adjacent building as the number of pupils was exceeding the capacity of the brick school.

[27] In October 1884, William Mahoney, who received all his early education under Mr Hammill at St Peter's, paid a visit to the school on his return to New Zealand as a priest.

Steins's successor, the Englishman John Luck OSB, fourth Catholic Bishop of Auckland (1881–1896), had no such qualms and invited the Marist Brothers to establish their school.

[45] Nearly 40 years later, in 1923, Henry Cleary, the sixth Catholic Bishop of Auckland, issued an invitation to the Christian Brothers to found a school.

[51] However, work continued until 1941 on the development of Reeves Road (a street that later disappeared as it was incorporated as the entrance to St. Peter's College),[note e] the building of stone walls, and the very significant soil transfer from the netball courts to level the playing fields was accomplished largely by workers on the Government Relief scheme following the Great Depression.

left: The construction of the Christian Brothers' House, St Peter's College, Auckland, 1938 The school was opened on Sunday, 29 January 1939 by Bishop Liston and in the presence of Hon.

The opening took place on a wet afternoon and, as he read his speech, Bishop Liston was sheltered under an umbrella held by the foundation headmaster of the college, Brother F.P.

He said that they were "here at the invitation of the Bishop to take charge of St Peter's school and to have their part, along with the Marist Brothers and other religious communities, in our Catholic education system.

At the conclusion of his speech, Bishop Liston said, "This is a very happy day for me indeed for I owe much more than I can say to the training I received at the hands of the Christian Brothers in Dunedin long years ago.

[54]: 7–8  In 1955 a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, paid for by the Christian Brothers Old Boys, was placed in the alcove on the Bro P O'Driscoll Building above the quadrangle.

"No text books were allowed on Saturdays, and woe betide any student who didn't know the properties and tests for various gases and metals and their respective weights".

A large three-story set of classrooms (now called the Brother B E Ryan Building) plus assembly hall and squash courts were opened in the early 1970s.

[77] In 1980, Hugh McGahan, captain of the New Zealand National Rugby League side, "the Kiwis" from 1986 to 1990, also played for the college First XV, under similar pressure to that exerted on John Tamihere.

[80] Cooper used the episode in his argument for the transfer of the Mt Eden Prison quarries to Auckland Grammar for the creation of new sports fields for that school.

St Peter's lost a small section of land on its south west extremity for the motorway on-ramp at Khyber Pass Rd and in return was sold Reeves Road and some prison houses at a concessional price.

[80][89][90][91] For nearly fifty years St Peter's College had its own railway station, developed on the initiative of Brother T. A. Monagle in 1964, to cater for the large number of students from St Peter's College and Auckland Grammar School who arrived on the North or West train and had to alight at Mt Eden Station and walk to their schools.

This was a temporary pre-fabricated building located near the northern end of the quadrangle of the college (also known as the "Top Yard") until it was removed to allow the permanent school chapel to be constructed on the site and opened in 2020.

The headmaster, Mr James Bentley, said "that the building made a statement for all to see about what the college stood for and as a place of worship, not just for students and staff, but also for the wider community“.

There is a well-known story at St Peter's College concerning the large Christian Brothers emblem above the main northern entrance to the original school building.

[13] The integration of St Peter's College into the state education system also " ... caused a 'church/state' separation of the [Christian Brothers] community from the institution".

[127][128] The St Peter's College Sports Complex was erected on the old netball courts[129] was opened on 21 September 2010 by the Governor-General of New Zealand, Sir Anand Satyanand,[130] and was a 2012 Auckland Architecture Award winner.

[20] Christian Brothers missions in Polynesia were supported, particularly Nukutere College in Rarotonga and regular trips to India were organised for senior students.

Other building projects were launched[139] including the revamping of the Brother J B Lynch Science Laboratories reopened by alumnus ('47), Dr Ron Tubuhovich in 2024.