Last updated October 2026
Heretaunga Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 260 Orchard Road, Hastings. It opened in 1960 and had 258 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Camberley, Frimley, St Leonards and Mahora, and parts of Tōmoana, Raureka, Longlands and Hastings City Centre; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes place-based learning tied to Heretaunga and Ngāti Kahungunu history, and a specialist hub called Te Ao Mārama where students rotate through food, fabric and materials technology, science, art and performing arts. It lists kapa haka, a Pasifika group, instrumental music lessons, an orchestra, marimba band, choir and rock band, a wide range of sports with inter-school competitions, a learning support team with whānau mentors and an on-site social worker, and a breakfast club.
At a glance
- Principal
- Ingrid Heaps (Acting)
- Address
- 260 Orchard Road, Hastings
- Phone
- 06 878 8358
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of St Leonards, Mahora, Camberley and Frimley.
Parts of Tōmoana, Raureka, Longlands and Hastings City Centre: 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 257 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 September 2025. ERO noted that a large majority of students start at the school well behind the expected curriculum level and that the school’s work is aimed at speeding up their progress, with marked gains for the students most at risk.
Students told ERO they feel they belong, relationships between staff and students are built on trust, classrooms are increasingly calm and settled, and the school is bringing structured approaches into its daily reading, writing and maths teaching. Even so, less than half of students meet the expected level in reading and less than a third in writing and maths, results are not yet equitable across groups, and only a small majority attend regularly, which is behind the government’s 80% target.
ERO’s priorities are for the school to lift attendance, achievement and engagement, sharpen its strategic focus, plan a curriculum that gives students learning across all subject areas, build consistent assessment in literacy and maths that guides teaching, and continue professional learning for teachers, including for multi-level classes.
ERO also found that students with complex needs need better support, and recommended that the Ministry of Education give the school tailored support with this improvement work.
Read the ERO reports for Heretaunga 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 the board setting the number of places each year, and by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
Both in-zone and out-of-zone families apply through the online enrolment form on the school’s site. The school publishes its application and ballot dates, along with a written description of the zone boundary, on its enrolment page each year.
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 Camberley
Heretaunga Intermediate is in Camberley. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Camberley guide →Questions parents ask
Is Heretaunga Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of St Leonards, Mahora, Camberley and Frimley and parts of Tōmoana, Raureka, Longlands and Hastings City Centre.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
257 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?
492. 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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