Saint Kentigern Boys' School

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My boys transferred to St Kentigern this year from a decile 10 public school, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the incredible progress we’ve seen. Mrs. Blackhall and Mr. Knox have been outstanding in their teaching and support. All other teachers are all amazing! The improvement in our sons’ social skills, manners, discipline, and academic performance has been remarkable. St Kents’s value have positively shaped our boys growth in so many ways. We highly recommend this school to any family looking for a nurturing and structured environment for their child’s development.

All of my boys have gone through the school and had great experiences that they brought onto Auckland Grammar the waterpolo is good and the rugby lead by Hardie is great football is amazing

Great school, teachers are awesome, and it has a great balance between co curricular and academic stuff

2018: AWESOME 2021: This is still a great school! Especially finishing 8 years in this school, the education system here is great and sports too, trying to push the boys to their limits of their imagination and physical health. If you are considering putting your son here especially if you are going to continue his studies in the college this is definitely the best place to start!

I hope St Kents is a better place now than my two years there. "Control-through-fear-and-shame" was the fundamental philosophy. Far from preparing me to have confidence and skills to live a functional authentic and worthwhile life, it sucked my soul and spirit dry. They demanded that I be overly compliant, unwilling to take risks for fear of ridicule (from staff, as much as students), and unsafe to show any weakness or individuality or personality. Those that could live up to the outward expectations, were excused their behind-the-scenes bullying cheating and back-stabbing. The state-run schools that I attended prior and subsequent, were far better preparation for adulthood

My son went to Saint Kents for 3 years and I can tell you it was the biggest waste of money. If you think your son will get a better education here than in a state school, you are very wrong. The school puts sports first, education second, it is a money making business after all and all they seem to care about is using the children for marketing. My son was being bullied and his teacher just fobbed it off and blamed my son. Some of the staff are just rude especially the woman at reception, she seems to think shes better than you. My sons now in a state school in Australia and is already doing much better in school, his teacher has done more in one week than Saint Kents did in 3 years.