Te Wharekura o Mauao

Te Wharekura o Mauao is a co-educational secondary (year 7-15) school in Tauranga, within the Bay of Plenty Region, operating in the state sector, with 276 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 522. The school has been open since 2008.

With 276 students on roll, Te Wharekura o Mauao is a medium-sized school — larger than about 58% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 522, 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 59 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 50.9% and European at 43.4%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.19 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.