Hastings Girls' High School - Ngā Rau Huia o Ākina

Hastings Girls' High School - Ngā Rau Huia o Ākina is a girls school secondary (year 9-15) school in Hastings, within the Hawke's Bay Region, operating in the state sector, with 518 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 514. The school has been open since 1955.

With 518 students on roll, Hastings Girls' High School - Ngā Rau Huia o Ākina is a large school — larger than about 82% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 514, which is above the national average of 463. A higher Equity Index signals greater socio-economic need in the school's community — schools in this band receive more targeted government funding and support. The gap of 51 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 38.2% and European at 31.6%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.07 (very low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.