Last updated October 2026
Havelock North High School is a state, co-educational secondary school for Years 9 to 13 at 153 Te Mata Road, Havelock North. It opened in 1975 and had 1,147 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes 11 suburbs in full and parts of 5 more, among them Waimārama, Pūkahu, Kahurānaki, Tuki Tuki, Clifton and Te Awanga; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes Encompass, a weekly class for every student that builds learning and life skills, drama and music at every level, five choirs, and a wide range of summer and winter sports, with an all-weather hockey turf, swimming pool and gymnasium. Its ORS department, with its own classrooms, supports ORS-funded students, each with an individual education plan, who also join mainstream option classes and activities such as kapa haka and choir, and the school takes international students.
At a glance
- Principal
- Joel Wilton
- Address
- 153 Te Mata Road, Havelock North
- Phone
- 06 877 8129
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Tuki Tuki, Pūkahu, Whakatu, Mangateretere, Kahurānaki, Haumoana, Te Awanga, Clifton, Clive, Waimārama and Havelock North Hastings.
Parts of Poukawa, Karamū, Pakipaki, Waipatu and Tōmoana: 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.
NCEA results
School leavers with NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with all New Zealand school leavers.
This school New Zealand
School leavers are students who left school that year, whatever year level they left from.
Who goes here
Share of the 1,147 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
23 international students
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.
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 Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from December 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well progress and achievement information is used in Years 9 and 10 to support fair and strong outcomes for every student.
ERO pointed to leaders committed to building teaching capability through a professional learning community, well-established systems for tracking and supporting senior students through NCEA, and supportive, respectful relationships that encourage students to take charge of their learning.
Next, the school plans to set up systems to track and report junior students’ progress so those needing extra help are identified, define the key progress measures in every junior subject, build teachers’ skill in using data and assessment, and agree a shared understanding of responsive teaching with high expectations. It also expects better attendance and engagement and faster progress for the students it is targeting.
Read the ERO reports for Havelock North High School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, and proof of address may be needed. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
The school says the board sets the number of out-of-zone places each year and advertises it, with how to apply, in a newspaper notice, and ballot dates are announced the same way.
Families complete an application form and bring it, with the student’s latest school report and birth certificate, to an enrolment interview. Home-zone students who meet the criteria for the ORS department are enrolled ahead of out-of-zone applicants.
Schools nearby
In Havelock North Hastings
Havelock North High School is in Havelock North Hastings. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Questions parents ask
Is Havelock North High School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Tuki Tuki, Pūkahu, Whakatu, Mangateretere, Kahurānaki, Haumoana, Te Awanga, Clifton, Clive, Waimārama and Havelock North Hastings and parts of Poukawa, Karamū, Pakipaki, Waipatu and Tōmoana.
What years does it teach?
Years 9 to 13.
How many students go there?
1,147 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
It may. It is not in the donation scheme, so it can ask families for donations.
What is its Equity Index?
434. 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.
How did its school leavers do in NCEA?
In 2025, 81.7% of its school leavers had NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with 77.8% of all New Zealand school leavers.
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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