Last updated October 2026
Taradale Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 6 Murphy Road, Taradale, Napier. It opened in 1967 and had 504 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Waiohiki, Jervoistown, Taradale, Greenmeadows and Meeanee, and parts of Awatoto, Poraiti, Te Awa and Puketapu; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site lists sport including cricket, volleyball, canoe polo, netball, basketball, swimming, hockey, water polo, table tennis and pickleball. Optional guitar, drums, flute, brass and speech and drama lessons are run by outside tutors, and students bring their own device to school.
At a glance
- Principal
- Martin Hantz
- Address
- 6 Murphy Road, Taradale, Napier
- Phone
- 06 844 7264
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Jervoistown, Taradale, Waiohiki near Napier, Meeanee Napier and Greenmeadows Napier.
Parts of Awatoto, Poraiti, Te Awa 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 504 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
1 international student
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 Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from July 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well the school works with mana whenua, families and the wider community to strengthen students’ learning.
ERO pointed to good connections with local iwi, hapū and the community, a school-wide commitment to two-way relationships, a focus on fair outcomes for every student, a culture that puts the learner at the centre, and well-established self-review processes.
Next, the school planned to build on its existing partnerships, develop a shared understanding of how learning partnerships shape outcomes, set a manageable scope for the evaluation, and link its local curriculum and leadership work to that focus.
Read the ERO reports for Taradale Intermediate
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places, with priority for siblings of current and former students, children of former students, and children of staff and board members.
Families apply through the online form on the school’s enrolment page and then email the supporting documents. The page publishes each year’s open week, closing dates and ballot date.
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 Taradale
Taradale Intermediate is in Taradale. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Taradale guide →Questions parents ask
Is Taradale Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Jervoistown, Taradale, Waiohiki near Napier, Meeanee Napier and Greenmeadows Napier and parts of Awatoto, Poraiti, Te Awa Napier and Puketapu near Napier.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
504 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?
440. 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).