# Napier Girls' High School

**Type:** Secondary (Year 9-15) (State)  
**Gender:** Girls School  
**Address:** Clyde Road, Bluff Hill, Napier  
**Region:** Hawke's Bay, Tairāwhiti  
**Total roll:** 1,030  
**Equity Index (EQI):** 448  
**Founded:** 1883  
**Website:** <http://www.nghs.school.nz>  

## Latest ERO review (2023-12-08)

**Author:** Shelley Booysen, ERO  
**Composite score:** 82/100  
**Source:** <https://www.ero.govt.nz/institution/217/napier-girls-high-school#report-29554>

### Key findings
- Leadership prioritises and plans for school improvement that led to equitable and excellent outcomes with a particular focus on Māori and Pacific learners
- Staff commitment to ongoing professional learning aligned to the school's strategic direction to improve learner outcomes
- A robust professional growth process in Manaaki Ki Te Tangata supports building capacity and capability for teachers in culturally responsive and relational pedagogy

### Verbatim quotes from ERO
> _"leadership prioritises and plans for school improvement that led to equitable and excellent outcomes with a particular focus on Māori and Pacific learners"_ — ERO, 2023-12-08 (leadership)

> _"teachers strengthening and embedding culturally responsive and relational teaching practices across all curriculum areas that improve student outcomes and wellbeing"_ — ERO, 2023-12-08 (curriculum)

> _"wellbeing is supported through strengthening conditions, structures, systems and processes that promote learner wellbeing, inclusive of te ao Māori and mātauranga Māori"_ — ERO, 2023-12-08 (wellbeing)

## International student programme

- **SIEBA member:** yes
- **Source:** <https://www.nghs.school.nz/International-1/International-Enrolments-1>

## Tags

`accepts_international_students` · `sieba_member` · `consistent_excellence` · `state_school` · `single_sex_girls` · `secondary_school` · `roll_1000_to_2000` · `boarding_facility` · `international_students_accepted` · `reviewed_by_prolific_director`

## Machine-readable siblings

- JSON: <https://schoolsnearme.co.nz/api/school/napier-girls-high-school/facts.json>
- ERO history (markdown): <https://schoolsnearme.co.nz/api/school/napier-girls-high-school/ero-history.md>

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Methodology: <https://schoolsnearme.co.nz/methodology> · Every claim above links to its source document.