Best secondary schools in Hawke's Bay & Gisborne
47 secondary 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.
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Academic92Outcomes—Retention92Wellbeing69Trajectory100ERO review76 - 2Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Horouta Wananga
Te Hapara · Composite · 170 students · EQI 510+ (most disadvantaged)
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Academic—Outcomes—Retention88Wellbeing100Trajectory49ERO review85 - 3TKKM o Te Wananga Whare Tapere o Takitimu
Waipatu · Composite · 278 students · EQI 510+ (most disadvantaged)
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Academic72Outcomes—Retention80Wellbeing100Trajectory100ERO review88 - View profile →
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/ 100 composite
Academic97Outcomes45Retention94Wellbeing97Trajectory70ERO review85 - View profile →
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/ 100 composite
Academic97Outcomes37Retention98Wellbeing98Trajectory59ERO review85 - 6Lindisfarne College
Stortford Lodge · Secondary (Year 7-15) · 472 students · EQI <420 (most advantaged)
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Academic92Outcomes66Retention85Wellbeing70Trajectory66ERO review85 - View profile →
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Academic89Outcomes67Retention92Wellbeing60Trajectory56ERO review82 - View profile →
77
/ 100 composite
Academic87Outcomes60Retention88Wellbeing82Trajectory59ERO review85 - View profile →
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/ 100 composite
Academic—Outcomes—Retention100Wellbeing—Trajectory35ERO review76 - 10Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hawaiki Hou
Elgin-Gisborne · Composite · — students · EQI 510+ (most disadvantaged)
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Academic—Outcomes—Retention—Wellbeing—Trajectory—ERO review76
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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).