Howick College
Howick College is a state co-educational secondary school located in the eastern Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Cockle Bay.[4] The school was built to the "S68" design, characterised by single-storey classroom blocks with reinforced masonry walls, low-pitched roofs, internal open courtyards and protruding clerestory windows.Corporal punishment was abolished nationwide sixteen years later, in July 1990.The school roll's gender composition was 52% male and 48% female; and its ethnic composition was 47% European New Zealanders (Pākehā), 14% Other European, 13% Māori, 8% Asian, 5% Pasifika, 6% Indian, and 6% Other.[7] Howick College has six school houses:[8] In the bro'Town première episode "The Weakest Link" (2004), one of the schools competing in the high school quiz challenge is named "Howick Beijing College", a reference to the Howick area's large Chinese migrant population.