This is a list of schools in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island.
Name | Years | Gender | Area | Authority | Decile | Roll | Website | MOE |
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Alexandra School | 1–8 | Coed | Alexandra | State | 8 | 190 | 3701 | |
Clyde School | 1–8 | Coed | Clyde | State | 9 | 162 | 3725 | |
Cromwell College | 7–15 | Coed | Cromwell | State | 8 | 602 | 373 | |
Cromwell Primary School | 1–6 | Coed | Cromwell | State | 8 | 359 | 3729 | |
Dunstan High School | 9–13 | Coed | Alexandra | State | 9 | 568 | 372 | |
Goldfields School | 1–6 | Coed | Cromwell | State | 7 | 284 | 3741 | |
Maniototo Area School | 1–13 | Coed | Ranfurly | State | 7 | 135 | 370 | |
Millers Flat School | 1–8 | Coed | Millers Flat | State | 7 | 25 | 3771 | |
Omakau School | 1–8 | Coed | Omakau | State | 8 | 72 | 3788 | |
Poolburn School | 1–8 | Coed | Oturehua | State | 10 | 45 | 3802 | |
Roxburgh Area School | 1–13 | Coed | Roxburgh | State | 4 | 129 | 375 | |
St Gerard's School | 1–8 | Coed | Alexandra | State integrated | 9 | 129 | - | 3823 |
St John's School | 1–8 | Coed | Ranfurly | State integrated | 7 | 61 | - | 3824 |
Tarras School | 1–8 | Coed | Tarras | State | 10 | 20 | 3843 | |
The Terrace School | 1–8 | Coed | Alexandra | State | 8 | 294 | 3844 | |
Name | School number | Years | Gender | Area | Authority | Opened | Roll | Website | Notes |
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Bayfield High School | 382 | 9–13 | Coed | Musselburgh | State | 1961 | 597 | ||
Columba College | 386 | 1–13 | Coed/Girls | Roslyn | State integrated | 1915 | 587 | Presbyterian, boarding. Coeducational years 1–6, girls only years 7–13. | |
John McGlashan College | 387 | 7–13 | Boys | Maori Hill | State integrated | 1918 | 515 | Presbyterian, boarding | |
Kaikorai Valley College | 381 | 7–13 | Coed | Kaikorai | State | 1958 | 439 | ||
King's High School | 383 | 9–13 | Boys | Forbury | State | 1936 | 850 | ||
Logan Park High School | 376 | 9–13 | Coed | Dunedin North | State | 1975 | 807 | ||
Otago Boys' High School | 377 | 9–13 | Boys | City Rise | State | 1863 | 824 | Boarding | |
Otago Girls' High School | 378 | 9–13 | Girls | City Rise | State | 1871 | 707 | ||
Queen's High School | 384 | 9–13 | Girls | Forbury | State | 1955 | 462 | ||
Sara Cohen School | 3816 | – | Coed | Caversham | State | 1926 | 54 | Special needs | |
St Hilda's Collegiate School | 380 | 7–13 | Girls | City Rise | State integrated | 1896 | 462 | Anglican, boarding | |
Taieri College | 495 | 7–13 | Coed | Mosgiel | State | 2004 | 1220 | ||
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ōtepoti | 2351 | 1–13 | Coed | Fairfield | State | 1994 | 55 | Māori language school | |
Trinity Catholic College | 536 | 7–13 | Coed | City Rise | State integrated | 1989 | 670 | Catholic |
Otago is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately 32,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi), making it the country's second largest local government region. Its population was 246,000 in June 2022.
Oamaru is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Timaru and 120 kilometres (75 mi) north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. With a population of 13,900, Oamaru is the 28th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the third largest in Otago behind Dunedin and Queenstown. The town is the seat of Waitaki District, which includes the surrounding towns of Kurow, Weston, Palmerston, and Hampden. which combined have a total population of 23,200.
Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It has an urban population of 15,800.
Balclutha is a town in South Otago, lying towards the end of the Clutha River, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is about halfway between Dunedin and Gore on the Main South Line railway, State Highway 1 and the Southern Scenic Route. Balclutha has a population of 4,300, and is the largest town in South Otago.
Alexandra is a town in the Central Otago district of the South Island of New Zealand. It is on the banks of the Clutha River, on State Highway 8, 188 kilometres (117 mi) by road from Dunedin and 33 kilometres (21 mi) south of Cromwell. The nearest towns to Alexandra via state highway 8 are Clyde seven kilometers to the northwest and Roxburgh forty kilometers to the south. State highway 85 also connects Alexandra to Omakau, Lauder, Oturehua, Ranfurly and on to Palmerston on the East Otago coast.
North Otago in New Zealand covers the area of Otago between Shag Point and the Waitaki River, and extends inland to the west as far as the village of Omarama.
Cromwell is a town in Central Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. Cromwell is located on the shores of Lake Dunstan where the Kawarau river joins Lake Dunstan. Cromwell was established during the Otago gold rush and is now more known as one of the sub regions of the Central Otago wine region. In 2018, the town of Cromwell was home to a population of 5610 people.
Wānaka is a popular ski and summer resort town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. At the southern end of Lake Wānaka, it is at the start of the Clutha River/Mata-Au and is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park.
Waitaki District is a territorial authority district that is located in the Canterbury and Otago regions of the South Island of New Zealand. It straddles the traditional border between the two regions, the Waitaki River, and its seat is Oamaru.
The Otago Daily Times (ODT) is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ODT is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a combined print and digital annual audience of 304,000. Founded in 1861 it is New Zealand's oldest surviving daily newspaper – Christchurch's The Press, six months older, was a weekly paper until March 1863.
The town of Palmerston, in New Zealand's South Island, lies 50 kilometres to the north of the city of Dunedin. It is the largest town in the Waihemo Ward of the Waitaki District, with a population of 890 residents. Palmerston grew at a major road junction: State Highway 1 links Dunedin and Waikouaiti to the south with Oamaru and Christchurch to the north, while State Highway 85 heads inland to become the principal highway of the Maniototo. The Main South Line railway passes through the town and the Seasider tourist train travels from Dunedin to Palmerston and back once or twice a week. From 1880 until 1989, the town acted as the junction between the main line and a branch line that ran inland, the Dunback and Makareao Branches.
Taieri Mouth is a small fishing village at the mouth of the Taieri River, New Zealand. Taieri Island (Moturata) lies in the ocean several hundred metres off the river's mouth.
St Kevin's College in Oamaru, New Zealand, is a Catholic, coeducational, integrated, boarding and day, secondary school. It was founded by the Christian Brothers in 1927 for boys and became a co-educational school in 1983 after the Dominican Sisters closed down St Parick's College, Teschemakers, Oamaru. St Kevin's College became a state integrated school in 1983. The Christian Brothers ceased to be on the teaching staff of the college in the late 1990s but remained the school's proprietor, and so appointed representatives to the college board, until 2019 when they transferred the ownership of St Kevin's College to the Bishop of Dunedin.
Frankton is a suburb of the town of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand, it was formerly a separate settlement.
Otago was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate first created for the 1978 election, which was replaced by the Waitaki electorate and Clutha-Southland electorates for the 2008 election. Its last representative was Jacqui Dean of the National Party.
Horatio Hartley (1826–1903) was an American gold prospector who participated in the Otago Gold Rush in New Zealand in the 1860s.
Andrew McRae Davidson was a New Zealand teacher, principal, welfare worker and educationalist. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 10 November 1894. He was headmaster of Kurow School from 1927, where he helped create a free medical service for the workers at the Waitaki hydroelectric station. In 1935, he became headmaster at the Macandrew Road School in Dunedin and when the Macandrew Intermediate School was established on the same site in 1840, he became its head until his retirement in 1954. Subsequently, he was a member of the Otago Education Board for 12 years and a justice of the peace.
Shotover Country is a suburb of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand. It has around 810 sections and was originally 202 hectares when first rezoned from rural to residential. The suburb began in 2012 when sections first came up for sale.
The Southern District Health Board was a district health board which provided healthcare to an area covering the southern half of the South Island of New Zealand. In July 2022, the Southern DHB was dissolved as part of a nationwide overhaul of the district health board system. Its former functions and responsibilities were taken over by Te Whatu Ora.
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