Last updated October 2026
Havelock North Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 13 Nimon Street, Havelock North. It opened in 1974 and had 525 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes 10 suburbs in full and parts of 6 more, among them Waimārama, Pūkahu, Kahurānaki, Tuki Tuki, Clifton and Te Awanga; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site lists four technology areas, covering materials, robotics and coding, food and science technology, and arts options including choir, dance, drama, kapa haka, languages, music tuition, HNIDOL and wearable arts.
Year 8 students can apply for the year-long William Pike Challenge of outdoor activities, community service and passion projects, and the school takes international students, with homestays arranged through an outside provider.
At a glance
- Principal
- Nigel Messervy
- Address
- 13 Nimon Street, Havelock North
- Phone
- 06 877 8039
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Tuki Tuki, Whakatu, Mangateretere, Kahurānaki, Haumoana, Te Awanga, Waimārama, Clifton, Havelock North Hastings and Pūkahu.
Parts of Karamū, Clive, Poukawa, Pakipaki, Waipatu and Longlands: 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 525 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 May 2025. ERO found that a large majority of students are at or above the expected curriculum level in reading, writing and mathematics, with results equitable across all groups of learners. It noted high-quality teaching with clear, structured routines in literacy and mathematics, orderly and cooperative classrooms, students with a strong sense of belonging, useful reporting to parents, and good support for students with complex needs. Since its previous review the school has greatly improved progress for the students most at risk of not achieving.
Attendance is the main concern. The school is close to the Government’s target for regular attendance, but attendance is not yet improving and chronic absence is not yet falling.
The agreed next steps are to keep monitoring attendance and adjust its strategies, evaluate how professional development is lifting teaching and student progress, and keep building relationships with families and the community to shape the school’s goals.
Read the ERO reports for Havelock North Intermediate
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, and the school may ask for proof of address. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, with priority for siblings of current and former students and then children of board employees, and by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
In-zone families are asked to apply by the same closing date as out-of-zone applicants so the school can plan, and families can enrol online. The school holds an open evening and publishes its closing date and ballot date 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 Havelock North Hastings
Havelock North Intermediate 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 Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Tuki Tuki, Whakatu, Mangateretere, Kahurānaki, Haumoana, Te Awanga, Waimārama, Clifton, Havelock North Hastings and Pūkahu and parts of Karamū, Clive, Poukawa, Pakipaki, Waipatu and Longlands.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
525 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?
432. 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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