Last updated October 2026
Hastings Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 621 Hastings Street South, Hastings. It opened in 1954 and had 407 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes 7 suburbs in full and parts of 8 more, among them Karamū, Hastings City Centre, Parkvale, Waipatu, Whakatu and Ākina; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site describes technology classes that students rotate through, covering materials, food, sports science, science and digital technology with coding and robotics.
Arts options include extension art, a school choir, band, instrument lessons, drama, kapa haka, a Pasifika and cultural dance group that performs at PolyFest or Poly Nation, hip hop and a theatre production every two years.
At a glance
- Principal
- Lesley Smith
- Address
- 621 Hastings Street South, Hastings
- Phone
- 06 878 4213
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Waipatu, Mayfair Hastings, Ākina, Parkvale, Whakatu, Karamū and Hastings City Centre.
Parts of Tōmoana, Raureka, Mangateretere, Mahora, Clive, Longlands, Havelock North Hastings and Pūkahu: check your street.
Zone boundaries are set by the school’s enrolment scheme and can change. Confirm your address with the school before you rely on it.
Who goes here
Share of the 407 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
MELAA: Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
Stand-downs and suspensions
Cases per 1,000 students in 2025, adjusted for the ages of the school’s students, compared with all New Zealand schools.
Suspensions: fewer than 5 cases in 2025, so no rate is shown.
These measure how a school responds to behaviour, and schools set their own thresholds, so they are not a measure of how students behave.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a School Report from November 2025. ERO found an inclusive school where students are valued and their wellbeing is looked after closely, with daily check-ins for every student, a consistent approach to behaviour, a wide range of sport and cultural activities, growing ties with whānau, hapū and iwi, and good support for students with complex needs. The board reflects its community, and structured literacy is under way.
ERO also found that achievement needs to improve. Just over half of students arrive behind the expected curriculum level, and less than a third meet or exceed it in reading, writing or mathematics, with results not yet equitable across groups.
A small majority attend school regularly, below the Government’s target, and the school is not yet making progress towards the Government’s 2030 achievement targets. Its priorities are to track each student’s progress across their two years, fully put structured literacy and mathematics in place, make better use of achievement data, grow teachers’ confidence in te reo Māori, and carry out its attendance plan.
Read the ERO reports for Hastings Intermediate
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, with priority for siblings of current and former students, then children of former students and of board employees or members, and by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
Under the scheme, the board advertises the number of out-of-zone places, how to apply and the closing date in a local newspaper. The school’s site sets out the zone boundaries street by street and links to an online enrolment form.
Schools nearby
Where students go next
Based on home zones around the school’s own address. Families can apply to any school, and your own address decides which zones you are in.
In Ākina
Hastings Intermediate is in Ākina. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Ākina guide →Questions parents ask
Is Hastings Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Waipatu, Mayfair Hastings, Ākina, Parkvale, Whakatu, Karamū and Hastings City Centre and parts of Tōmoana, Raureka, Mangateretere, Mahora, Clive, Longlands, Havelock North Hastings and Pūkahu.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
407 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
No. It is in the donation scheme, so it only asks for donations for school camps.
What is its Equity Index?
509. The Ministry of Education’s Equity Index estimates the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, from 344 (fewest) to 569 (most). It is used to share out funding, not as a measure of quality.
School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 23 Oct 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Home zone: Ministry of Education enrolment zones (CC BY 4.0). NCEA results, roll history and stand-downs: Education Counts, school leavers 2023 to 2025, stand-downs 2025, rolls 2021 to 2025 (CC BY 4.0). Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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