Tauhara College is a state coeducational secondary school located in Taupō, New Zealand. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has approximately 600 students.

Tauhara College is one of three high schools in Taupō; the others are Taupo-nui-a-Tia College and Lake Taupo Christian School (state integrated).

Enrolment

As of November 2024, Tauhara College has a roll of 664 students, of which 256 (38.6%) identify as Māori.[2]

As of 2024, the school has an Equity Index of 476,[4] placing it amongst schools whose students have the above average socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 4 and 5 under the former socio-economic decile system).[5]

Waka

The students in the school are divided into four waka ("canoes") which compete in numerous events, mostly sporting, throughout the year in order to gain the most points in the Tauhara College Canoe Competition. The houses, and the colours they are represented by, are:

  • Aotea (blue)
  • Arawa (green)
  • Mataatua (red)
  • Tainui (yellow)

Notable alumni

Notes

  1. ^ "from disruption to discovery". Furnware. Furnware. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  4. ^ "New Zealand Equity Index". New Zealand Ministry of Education.
  5. ^ "School Equity Index Bands and Groups". www.educationcounts.govt.nz. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Donovan Bixley". Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  7. ^ Marshall, Chris (29 July 2019). "Taupō's Sammie Maxwell has a mountain bike dream". Waikato Times. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
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