Last updated November 2026
Marlborough Boys’ College is a state, boys’ secondary school for Years 9 to 13 at 5 Stephenson Street, Blenheim. It opened in 1900 and had 980 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply.
At a glance
- Principal
- Jarrod Dunn
- Address
- 5 Stephenson Street, Blenheim
- Phone
- 03 578 0119
Home zone
No home zone: any student can apply to enrol. If more students apply than there are places, the school decides how places are offered.
NCEA results
School leavers with NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with all New Zealand school leavers.
This school New Zealand
School leavers are students who left school that year, whatever year level they left from.
Who goes here
Share of the 980 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
3 international students
MELAA: Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
Stand-downs and suspensions
Cases per 1,000 students in 2025, adjusted for the ages of the school’s students, compared with all New Zealand schools.
These measure how a school responds to behaviour, and schools set their own thresholds, so they are not a measure of how students behave.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from February 2024. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here the effect of building the college’s graduate profile into teaching, learning and pastoral care.
ERO noted that the graduate profile was shaped with students, whānau, staff, the community and iwi, and that closer links with iwi and local knowledge have informed the school’s direction.
Systems for tracking progress help staff find students who need to catch up and plan for them together, and the recently introduced vertical whānau classes are building supportive relationships between older and younger students and their teachers.
From here the school plans to keep working with iwi so teachers grow more confident using local stories and knowledge in their programmes, run targeted professional learning to engage all students, ask students and whānau what success in these skills should look like and how to measure it, and use achievement, agency and engagement data to judge the impact. ERO also noted that the school is planning to share a new site with Marlborough Girls’ College in future.
Read the ERO reports for Marlborough Boys’ College
Enrolling
The school has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol directly with the school.
Schools nearby
In Blenheim CBD
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Read our Blenheim CBD guide →Questions parents ask
Is Marlborough Boys' College zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 9 to 13.
How many students go there?
980 at 1 Oct 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
No. It is in the donation scheme, so it only asks for donations for school camps.
What is its Equity Index?
456. The Ministry of Education’s Equity Index estimates the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, from 344 (fewest) to 569 (most). It is used to share out funding, not as a measure of quality.
Is it a single-sex school?
Yes. It takes boys only.
How did its school leavers do in NCEA?
In 2025, 71.1% of its school leavers had NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with 77.8% of all New Zealand school leavers.
Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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Sources and data notes 1
- School facts: School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 7 Nov 2026 (CC BY 4.0). NCEA results, roll history and stand-downs: Education Counts, school leavers 2023 to 2025, stand-downs 2025, rolls 2021 to 2025 (CC BY 4.0).