Last updated October 2026
Tamatea Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 15 Freyberg Avenue, Tamatea, Napier. It opened in 1976 and had 366 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Pirimai, Tamatea and Westshore, and parts of Bay View, Greenmeadows, Poraiti, Onekawa, Jervoistown, Meeanee and Puketapu; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school runs a Rūmaki Reo programme, with classes for each year level where teaching and learning happen through te reo Māori me ōna tikanga, and entry is by set criteria and an interview. Its site also lists kapa haka, a dance and cheer team, after-school art and music classes, sport, and outdoor challenge options such as the Tongariro Crossing and white water rafting.
At a glance
- Principal
- Chris Meynell
- Address
- 15 Freyberg Avenue, Tamatea, Napier
- Phone
- 06 844 4181
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Tamatea, Pirimai and Westshore Napier.
Parts of Bay View Napier, Greenmeadows Napier, Poraiti, Onekawa Napier, Jervoistown, Meeanee Napier and Puketapu near Napier: 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.
Who goes here
Share of the 366 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
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.
Suspensions: fewer than 5 cases in 2025, so no rate is shown.
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 School Report from October 2025. ERO found good quality teaching, a broad curriculum that ties learning to local contexts and iwi, strong support for students with complex needs, and an inclusive environment where students are highly engaged and feel they belong.
Results are uneven, though: a small majority of students are at or above the expected level in reading, but less than half are in writing and maths, and results in those two subjects are not yet equitable across groups.
In the rumaki, ERO found quality teaching through te reo Māori in a nurturing Māori setting, but less than a third of ākonga were at the expected level in pānui and tuhituhi, with a small majority in pāngarau.
Only a small majority of students attend regularly, which is behind the government target, although attendance is improving and chronic absence is falling.
The key priorities are to keep lifting attendance, embed a structured approach to maths, check whether professional learning in writing is speeding up progress and making results fairer, and make better use of assessment in the rumaki to follow each student’s progress.
ERO also found one area of non-compliance, about sighting and recording identification when staff are appointed, which the board has since addressed.
Read the ERO reports for Tamatea Intermediate
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, with proof of address. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places, and students accepted into the Rūmaki Reo programme come first in the priority order, followed by siblings and other priority groups.
Families apply through the online enrolment form on the school’s enrolments page and then email the supporting documents. The page lists the documents needed and the school publishes each year’s opening and closing dates there.
Schools nearby
Where students go next
Based on home zones around the school’s own address. Families can apply to any school, and your own address decides which zones you are in.
In Tamatea
Tamatea Intermediate is in Tamatea. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Tamatea guide →Questions parents ask
Is Tamatea Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Tamatea, Pirimai and Westshore Napier and parts of Bay View Napier, Greenmeadows Napier, Poraiti, Onekawa Napier, Jervoistown, Meeanee Napier and Puketapu near Napier.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
366 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?
498. 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.
Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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Sources and data notes 1
- School facts: School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 26 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).