Last updated October 2026
Tikipunga High School is a state, co-educational secondary school for Years 7 to 13 at 194 Corks Road, Tikipunga, Whangarei. It opened in 1971 and had 355 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply. Its prospectus describes small classes, te reo Māori offered from Year 7 to Year 13, access to senior courses from Years 7 and 8, a supported learning unit for students with additional learning needs, and a tuakana teina model where senior students support junior classes.
Senior students can follow university, trades or work pathways with careers and Gateway support, and the site lists trades and services academies and kapa haka.
At a glance
- Principal
- Emma Leyland
- Address
- 194 Corks Road, Tikipunga, Whangarei
- Phone
- 09 437 3299
Home zone
No home zone: any student can apply to enrol. If more students apply than there are places, the school decides how places are offered.
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 355 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.
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 Evaluation Report from September 2024. ERO found outcomes improving for the majority of students, who gain NCEA at Levels 1, 2 and 3, and NCEA results for Māori students rising and holding over time. It noted collaborative leadership, good use of achievement information to set individual targets, a curriculum grounded in local contexts and mātauranga Māori, calm classrooms built on positive relationships with students and whānau, and the school’s learning support unit, Te Pūtahitanga. However, very few students gained University Entrance, fewer than half of Years 7 to 10 students were at expected levels in reading, writing and mathematics, though most made accelerated progress, and fewer than half attended regularly.
The agreed next steps are to lift attendance to the Ministry of Education target, keep accelerating achievement in Years 7 to 10 and help more students reach University Entrance, and set ambitious goals with planning that is regularly monitored and reported to the board.
Read the ERO reports for Tikipunga High School
Enrolling
The school has no enrolment scheme, so any student can apply. Families apply through the online enrolment form linked from the school’s website.
Schools nearby
In Tikipunga Whangarei
Tikipunga High School is in Tikipunga Whangarei. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Tikipunga Whangarei guide →Questions parents ask
Is Tikipunga High School zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 13.
How many students go there?
355 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?
560. 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.
How did its school leavers do in NCEA?
In 2025, 46.5% 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, 25 Oct 2026 (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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