Since 2007 the School Of The Year Award has been awarded to the school with the most songs in the finals of the Lion Foundation Songwriting Competition. Here are the past winners.

2011

In 2011 there were three schools with an equal amount of entries in the finals:

Manurewa High School, Auckland

Wellington High School, Wellington

Takapuna Grammar School, Auckland

2010

Kaipara College, Auckland

2009

Otumoetai College, Tauranga

2008

Kaipara College, Auckland

2007

Church College of New Zealand, Hamilton