Macleans College is a co-educational state secondary school located in Eastern Beach, Auckland, New Zealand.[4] Metro placed Macleans College as the number one Auckland high school in 2010 among those in the Cambridge International Examinations system.[4] The first principal was Colin Prentice, who later became director of World Vision in New Zealand, followed by his deputy Allan McDonald in 1989.[4] Mansfield House was hastily opened in 1984 due to a surge in the school's roll, however the building itself was used earlier as temporary classrooms, having been airlifted via helicopter as prefabricated units.The school is currently in the process of rebuilding all of its previous buildings due to leaks found and poor original construction.The Batten, Snell, Rutherford, Kupe, Upham, Te Kanawa, Hillary and Mansfield, along with staffroom, resource room and student advisory have all been completed, Through this process, classes has often been relocated to 'X Block', a set of temporary prefabricated units that are parked on a tennis court.The property where Macleans is located on was bought from the Crown by Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki for $97 million in 2021.The school also contains specialised non-house associated Science and Technology, Computing, Graphics, Art, Music, and Engineering buildings, along with the large Barbara Kendall gymnasiums and a smaller Colin Prentice auditorium for productions and performance.