Marist College is a Catholic girls high-school located in Mt Albert, Auckland, New Zealand. It teaches from year 7 through to Year 13 with a curriculum based on Roman Catholicism. It has a maximum student capacity of 800 girls. The Marist Sisters congregation or order of Roman Catholic women was started in France during the early 19th century by Jeanne-Marie Chavoin and Jean-Claude Colin. The Marist Sisters founded the school known as Marist Sisters College in Mt Albert in 1928. The school officially changed its name to Marist College in 2000. The whole school community, through the general school programme and its instruction and observances, exercises the right to love and teach the values of Jesus Christ. Marist College has daily prayers, regular celebrations of the sacraments of Eucharist and formal study of a religious education programme. Each year, Marist College has a Marist Day, starting with a Mass in the morning and a themed fun time after that. It is always on August 15, also the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. In 2008, it celebrated Marist Day's 30th Anniversary, which started in 1978. Marist College's school colours are gold and blue.