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| Heretaunga College | |
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| Coordinates | 41°07′44″S175°03′18″E / 41.129°S 175.055°E /-41.129; 175.055 |
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| Type | State co-educational High School |
| Motto | Kia Hiwa Ra |
| Established | 1954 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 251 |
| Principal | John Murdoch |
| Years offered | Years 9–13 |
| School roll | 868[1](July 2025) |
| Socio-economic decile | 6N[2] |
| Website | heretaunga.school.nz |
Heretaunga College is a state coeducational secondary school located inUpper Hutt, New Zealand. The school has approximately 868 students from Years 9 to 13 (ages 12 to 18).
The college grounds are a large area with primary access via Ward Street (which runs North-West to South-East) and secondary access via Blockhouse Lane and Fortune Lane. The adjacentBlockhouse is a 1860s relic of theNew Zealand Wars (although it never saw action), which is currently managed byHeritage New Zealand. The adjacent Fortune Lane was one of the first residential areas inUpper Hutt, but no original buildings remain.
A long-running proposal to merge Heretaunga College with nearbyUpper Hutt College and their feeder schoolsFergusson Intermediate andMaidstone Intermediate which had led to a moratorium on buildings maintenance collapsed in 2007.[3] The only nearby secondary schools not included in the proposals wereSt. Patrick's College, Silverstream andHutt International Boys' School.
Heretaunga offers a broad range of classes and subjects throughout all year levels. Facilities include a new art suite and technical block along with three specialist computer labs. The College also has an English Language Centre, and there is a comprehensiveEnglish as a second language programme available.
At the February 2014Education Review Office (ERO) review, Heretaunga College had 762 students enrolled, including 39international students. 48 percent of students were male and 52 percent were female. 67 percent of students identified asEuropean (Pākehā), 20 percent identified asMāori, 6 percent asAsian, 5 percent asPasifika and 2 percent as another ethnicity.[4]
As of 2025, Heretaunga College has anEquity Index of 471,[5] placing it amongst schools whose students have above average socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to decile 4 under the formersocio-economic decile system).[6]
