Last updated October 2026
Napier Girls’ High School is a state, girls’ secondary school for Years 9 to 13 at Clyde Road, Bluff Hill, Napier. It opened in 1884 and had 1,015 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Napier South, Bluff Hill, Hospital Hill and Ahuriri, and parts of Pandora and Marewa; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes opt-in enrichment for all junior students, with acceleration that can include NCEA Level 1 in Year 10 and university papers in Year 13, and a Māori Achieve programme with tuakana teina mentoring, Māori student leadership and kapa haka. It also lists music, drama and dance, boarding at Hewett House, and international students who can choose the hostel or a homestay, with French, Japanese, Spanish and te reo Māori among the languages taught.
At a glance
- Principal
- Dawn Ackroyd
- Address
- Clyde Road, Bluff Hill, Napier
- Phone
- 06 835 1069
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Hospital Hill Napier, Ahuriri, Bluff Hill and Napier South.
Parts of Pandora and Marewa: check your street.
Zone boundaries are set by the school’s enrolment scheme and can change. Confirm your address with the school before you rely on it.
NCEA results
School leavers with NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with all New Zealand school leavers.
This school New Zealand
School leavers are students who left school that year, whatever year level they left from.
Who goes here
Share of the 1,015 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
24 international students
MELAA: Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
Stand-downs and suspensions
Cases per 1,000 students in 2025, adjusted for the ages of the school’s students, compared with all New Zealand schools.
These measure how a school responds to behaviour, and schools set their own thresholds, so they are not a measure of how students behave.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from December 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well culturally responsive and relational teaching supports fair and strong outcomes for students, with a focus on Māori learners.
ERO pointed to leadership that plans for improvement with Māori and Pacific students in mind, staff who are committed to professional learning tied to the school’s goals, and a staff growth process, Manaaki Ki Te Tangata, that builds teachers’ skills in this kind of teaching.
Next, the school plans to embed culturally responsive teaching in every learning area to lift achievement and wellbeing, and to strengthen how it consults with whānau, hapū and iwi so its curriculum reflects local histories, te ao Māori, te reo Māori and mātauranga Māori.
Read the ERO reports for Napier Girls’ High School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, with proof of residence, and girls accepted into the Hewett House hostel are treated as living in the zone.
Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, with priority for siblings of current and former students, daughters of former students and children of board employees or members, and by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
Year 9 applications are made online through the school’s enrolment page, which publishes each year’s application dates, open evening and offer timeline, and links to a zone map.
Schools nearby
In Bluff Hill
Napier Girls' High School is in Bluff Hill. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Questions parents ask
Is Napier Girls' High School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Hospital Hill Napier, Ahuriri, Bluff Hill and Napier South and parts of Pandora and Marewa.
What years does it teach?
Years 9 to 13.
How many students go there?
1,015 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
No. It is in the donation scheme, so it only asks for donations for school camps.
What is its Equity Index?
448. The Ministry of Education’s Equity Index estimates the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, from 344 (fewest) to 569 (most). It is used to share out funding, not as a measure of quality.
Is it a single-sex school?
Yes. It takes girls only.
How did its school leavers do in NCEA?
In 2025, 90.8% of its school leavers had NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with 77.8% of all New Zealand school leavers.
School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 22 Oct 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Home zone: Ministry of Education enrolment zones (CC BY 4.0). NCEA results, roll history and stand-downs: Education Counts, school leavers 2023 to 2025, stand-downs 2025, rolls 2021 to 2025 (CC BY 4.0). Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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