Opihi College

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Opihi College
Māori: Te Kāreti ō Ōpihi
Location
Opihi College
83/87 Richard Pearse Drive

Temuka
,
7920

New Zealand
Coordinates 44°14′22.96″S171°17′37.18″E / 44.2397111°S 171.2936611°E / -44.2397111; 171.2936611
Information
TypeState co-ed secondary (Year 7–13)
Motto Latin: Recte et Fortitudine
(Right and fortitude)
Established1866;159 years ago (1866)
Ministry of Education Institution no. 354
PrincipalKirsten Stevens
School roll273 [1] (July 2025)
Website www.opihicollege.school.nz

Opihi College is a state co-educational secondary school in Temuka, New Zealand. [2] The school was originally founded as Temuka District High School in 1866, and became Temuka High School in 1966. It is a relatively small high school catering to approximately 300 students from Year 7 to Year 13. [3] It moved to its current site in 1969, and was renamed Opihi College, after the nearby Ōpihi River, in 2005. [4] [5]

Contents

A wharenui was opened at the school in 2021. [6]

Enrolment

As of July 2025, Opihi College has roll of 273 students, of which 64 (23.4%) identify as Māori. [1]

As of 2025, the school has an Equity Index of 503, [7] placing it amongst schools whose students have many socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 2 and 3 under the former socio-economic decile system). [8]

Notable staff

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  2. ↑ "Opihi College – Temuka, Aoraki, South Canterbury". Opihi College. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "First head of Temuka H.S." The Press . Vol. 104, no. 30897. 2 November 1965. p. 15. Archived from the original on 12 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023– via PapersPast.
  4. ↑ MacDuff, Keiller (26 October 2022). "Former Temuka students gather to remember school days". Timaru Herald . Archived from the original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Welcome to Opihi – take a fresh look at our college". Opihi College. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  6. ↑ Ashby-Coventry, Esther (8 July 2021). "Official opening of Opihi College's new wharenui". Timaru Herald . Archived from the original on 10 November 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  7. ↑ "New Zealand Equity Index". New Zealand Ministry of Education.
  8. ↑ "School Equity Index Bands and Groups". www.educationcounts.govt.nz. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  9. ↑ Romanos, Joseph (22 April 2010). "The Wellingtonian interview: Ian Johnstone". Dominion Post . Archived from the original on 12 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  10. ↑ Dunn, Kirsty. "Rehu-Murchie, Erihapeti". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 12 November 2023.


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