Elim Christian College

Elim Christian College is a state-integrated, co-educational, day school located in Botany Downs, a suburb of Manukau City, Auckland, New Zealand. Established in 1988, the school currently caters for approximately 550 students from new entrants to Year 13, including over 50 international students. On April 15, 2008, six students and a teacher from the school died during a flash flood while canyoning the Mangatepopo Stream in the Tongariro National Park. In 2011 Principal Murray Burton was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and the teacher and one of the six students who died given medals for bravery.