Tararua College | |
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Churchill Street, Pahiatua, New Zealand | |
Coordinates | 40°27′22″S175°50′02″E / 40.4560°S 175.8338°E |
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Type | State, Co-educational, Secondary (Year 9–15) |
Motto | Māori: Tama Tu Tama Ora "those who strive live fully" |
Established | 1960 |
Ministry of Education Institution no. | 235 |
Principal | Iain Anderson [1] |
School roll | 386 [2] (March 2025) |
Socio-economic decile | 3I [3] |
Website | www.tararuacollege.school.nz |
Tararua College is a secondary school in Pahiatua, New Zealand, with approximately 407 students.
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]
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]