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Best intermediate schools in Hawke's Bay & Gisborne

8 intermediate schools ranked by the SchoolsNearMe composite — a 5-axis score (academic, outcomes, retention, wellbeing, trajectory) compared against EQI-band peers. Methodology.

Data refreshed from Education Counts 2026-05-27. Schools without enough data to score on the composite are omitted from this page but still appear in the directory.

  1. 1
    Tamatea Intermediate logo
    Tamatea Intermediate

    Tamatea · Intermediate · 433 students · EQI 475–509

    76

    / 100 composite

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    Wellbeing
    80
    Trajectory
    69
    ERO review
    76
  2. 2
    Taradale Intermediate logo
    Taradale Intermediate

    Taradale · Intermediate · 515 students · EQI 420–449

    64

    / 100 composite

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    Wellbeing
    74
    Trajectory
    32
    ERO review
    76
  3. 3
    Havelock North Intermediate logo
    Havelock North Intermediate

    Havelock North · Intermediate · 555 students · EQI 420–449

    63

    / 100 composite

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    Wellbeing
    58
    Trajectory
    53
    ERO review
    73
  4. 4
    Gisborne Intermediate logo
    Gisborne Intermediate

    Gisborne · Intermediate · 530 students · EQI 475–509

    62

    / 100 composite

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    Wellbeing
    80
    Trajectory
    32
    ERO review
    66
  5. 5
    Napier Intermediate logo
    Napier Intermediate

    Hospital Hill · Intermediate · 376 students · EQI 475–509

    48

    / 100 composite

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    Wellbeing
    16
    Trajectory
    47
    ERO review
    76
  6. 6
    Hastings Intermediate logo
    Hastings Intermediate

    Hastings · Intermediate · 378 students · EQI 475–509

    45

    / 100 composite

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    Wellbeing
    14
    Trajectory
    37
    ERO review
    76
  7. 7
    Heretaunga Intermediate logo
    Heretaunga Intermediate

    Hastings · Intermediate · 279 students · EQI 475–509

    36

    / 100 composite

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    Wellbeing
    0
    Trajectory
    23
    ERO review
    76
  8. 8
    Ilminster Intermediate logo
    Ilminster Intermediate

    Gisborne · Intermediate · 298 students · EQI 475–509

    35

    / 100 composite

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    Wellbeing
    0
    Trajectory
    19
    ERO review
    76

About this ranking

SchoolsNearMe's composite combines five axes — academic achievement, post-school destinations, Y9→Y13 retention, wellbeing (low stand-down rate), and roll trajectory — into a single 0–100 score. The math compares each school against its EQI-band peers (12 bands covering NZ's socio-economic spread), so a school serving more disadvantaged students isn't unfairly penalised against schools serving the most-advantaged.

Schools below 30 students aren't given a rollup score (per-axis data is still on each profile). Schools without composite-eligible data don't appear on this page.

Source data: Education Counts (NCEA, retention, destinations, discipline, funding) · Ministry of Education (roll, EQI, identity).