Tararua College

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Tararua College
Address
Tararua College
Churchill Street, Pahiatua,
New Zealand
Coordinates 40°27′22″S175°50′02″E / 40.4560°S 175.8338°E / -40.4560; 175.8338
Information
TypeState, Co-educational,
Secondary (Year 9–15)
Motto Māori: Tama Tu Tama Ora
"those who strive live fully"
Established1960
Ministry of Education Institution no. 235
PrincipalIain Anderson [1]
School roll386 [2] (March 2025)
Socio-economic decile3I [3]
Website www.tararuacollege.school.nz

Tararua College is a secondary school in Pahiatua, New Zealand, with approximately 407 students.

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History

Tararua College opened in 1960. Like most New Zealand state secondary school opened in the 1960s, the school was built to the Nelson common design plan, characterised by two-storey H-shaped classroom blocks, of which the school has one. The regional station Tararua TV was started in 2004, in an egg-carton lined room at the school. [4] In 2006, pupil brawls and abuse of teachers at the school was effectively stopped with the introduction of a ban on student cellphones. [5] Later that year a student teacher was forced to resign after admitting an affair with a pupil of the school. [6]

Enrolment

As of March 2025, Tararua College has a roll of 386 students, of which 164 (42.5%) identify as Māori. [2]

As of 2025, the school has an Equity Index of 508, [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 alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Senior Leadership Team". Tararua College. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  3. ↑ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Tararua TV station widens its coverage". The Dominion Post. 1 June 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2010.[ dead link ]
  5. ↑ O'Rourke, Simon (11 March 2006). "Teenage bullies hound 12-year-old to death". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
  6. ↑ Woulfe, Catherine (14 December 2006). "Teacher admits affair with 16-year-old". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
  7. ↑ "New Zealand Equity Index". New Zealand Ministry of Education.
  8. ↑ "School Equity Index Bands and Groups". www.educationcounts.govt.nz. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  9. ↑ Smith, Jacqueline (14 April 2009). "High flyer steps up to Diocesan top job". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
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