Last updated October 2026
Napier Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 3 Jull Street, Hospital Hill, Napier. It opened in 1933 and had 361 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Pandora, Te Awa, Marewa, Napier South, Bluff Hill, Hospital Hill and Ahuriri, and parts of Onekawa, Westshore and Awatoto; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes specialist technology programmes in art, food and fabric, hard materials, music, digital technology and science, alongside a curriculum built on the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Students learn in their classes and across school houses, and the school day finishes with time for sport and cultural practices.
At a glance
- Principal
- Timothy Van Zyl
- Address
- 3 Jull Street, Hospital Hill, Napier
- Phone
- 06 835 6013
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Pandora, Hospital Hill Napier, Ahuriri, Napier South, Bluff Hill, Marewa and Te Awa Napier.
Parts of Onekawa Napier, Westshore Napier and Awatoto: 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 361 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 Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from April 2024. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well new approaches to behaviour management and classroom teaching are lifting students’ progress and wellbeing, and how well the school collects and uses data to guide teaching and decisions.
ERO pointed to a close-knit staff who keep students’ wellbeing and results in view, teachers who welcome professional learning and adjust their practice, and a supportive community that expects a lot of the school.
Next, the school planned to review its assessment timetable and evaluation processes so they lead to clear decisions for students, gather and analyse a wider range of data to check whether its initiatives are working, build teachers’ skills through professional learning, and prepare for changes to the national curriculum so they are applied the same way in every class. It hopes to see better attendance and wellbeing, and stronger progress across curriculum areas.
Read the ERO reports for Napier 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 board employees.
Families apply through the online enrolment form linked from the school’s Enrol With Us page, and the school posts each year’s out-of-zone closing date, ballot date and offer date on its enrolment timeline page. The timeline also invites families to meet the principal, come to an open evening or book a visit.
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 Napier South
Napier Intermediate is in Napier South. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Napier South guide →Questions parents ask
Is Napier Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Pandora, Hospital Hill Napier, Ahuriri, Napier South, Bluff Hill, Marewa and Te Awa Napier and parts of Onekawa Napier, Westshore Napier and Awatoto.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
361 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?
497. 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).