Hora Hora School (Te Mai)

Hora Hora School (Te Mai) is a co-educational contributing school in Whangarei, within the Northland Region, operating in the state sector, with 333 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 534. The school has been open since 1893.

With 333 students on roll, Hora Hora School (Te Mai) is a large school — larger than about 65% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 534, 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 71 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 53.2% and Pasifika at 28.8%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.59 (moderate isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.