 In the late 1980s, the college began to struggle for student numbers as the fees needed to run a private school excluded a number of potential students.In 1993 Longburn became a fully state-integrated school operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and student numbers have increased to around the 280–300 mark each year.Longburn Adventist College is now a Year 7–13 school with the majority of the students being day students, mainly from the Palmerston North area.