The Auckland Region is the most populous region of New Zealand, containing the country's most populous city,

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about ...

, as well the towns of

Wellsford Wellsford (Māori: ''Whakapirau'') is a town on the Northland Peninsula in the northern North Island of New Zealand. It is the northernmost major settlement in the Auckland Region, and is 77 kilometres northwest of the Auckland CBD. Wellsford i ...

, Warkworth,

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, the

Hibiscus Coast The Hibiscus Coast is a populated area on a stretch of the Hauraki Gulf coast in New Zealand's Auckland Region. It has a population of making it the 11th most populous urban area in New Zealand, and the second most populous in the Auckland Re ...

Pukekohe Pukekohe is a town in the Auckland Region of the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the southern edge of the Auckland Region, it is in South Auckland, between the southern shore of the Manukau Harbour and the mouth of the Waikato River. ...

and

Waiuku Waiuku is a rural town in the Auckland Region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the Waiuku River, which is an estuarial arm of the Manukau Harbour, and lies on the isthmus of the Āwhitu Peninsula, wh ...

and their surrounding rural areas, plus many islands in the

Hauraki Gulf The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana is a coastal feature of the North Island of New Zealand. It has an area of 4000 km2,Waiheke Island Waiheke Island (; Māori: ) is the second-largest island (after Great Barrier Island) in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. Its ferry terminal in Matiatia Bay at the western end is from the central-city terminal in Auckland. It is the most po ...

and

Great Barrier Island Great Barrier Island ( mi, Aotea) lies in the outer Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, north-east of central Auckland. With an area of it is the sixth-largest island of New Zealand and fourth-largest in the main chain. Its highest point, Mount Hobson ...

. It contains a few small rural primary schools, some small town primary and secondary schools, and a large number of city schools. As of June 2011, there are 538 primary and secondary schools in Auckland, enrolling over 267,000 students. In New Zealand schools, students begin formal education in Year 1 at the age of five. Year 13 is the traditional final year of secondary education, although students are entitled to stay in secondary school until the end of the calendar year of their 19th birthday if need be. The list of schools below is broken up into primary and intermediate schools, which includes contributing primary schools (Years 1–6), full primary schools (Years 1–8), and intermediate schools (Years 7 and 8); secondary schools, which includes normal secondary schools (Years 9-13), secondary schools with intermediate (Years 7–13), junior secondary schools (Years 7–10) and senior secondary schools (Years 11–13); composite schools (Years 1–13); and special schools and teen parent units. Primary and intermediate schools are further broken up into the

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of the Auckland Council in which each school is located. State schools are those fully funded by the government and at which no fees for tuition of domestic students (i.e. New Zealand citizens and permanent residents, and Australian citizens) can be charged, although a

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is commonly requested. A state integrated school is a former private school with a special character based on a religious or philosophical belief that has been integrated into the state system. State integrated schools charge "attendance dues" to cover the building and maintenance of school buildings, which are not owned by the government, but otherwise they like state schools cannot charge fees for tuition of domestic students but may request a donation.

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s charge fees to its students for tuition, as do state and state integrated schools for tuition of international students. The

socioeconomic decile In the New Zealand education system, decile is a key measure of socioeconomic status used to target funding and support schools. In academic contexts the full term "socioeconomic decile" or "socioeconomic decile band" may be used. A school's dec ...

indicates the socioeconomic status of the school's catchment area. A decile of 1 indicates the school draws from a poor area; a decile of 10 indicates the school draws from a well-off area. The decile ratings used here come from the

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''Te Kete Ipurangi'' website and from the decile change spreadsheet listed in the references. The deciles were last revised using information from the 2006 census. The roll of each school changes frequently as students start school for the first time, move between schools, and graduate. The rolls given here are those provided by the Ministry of Education, and are based on figures from The Ministry of Education institution number links to the ''Education Counts'' page for each school.

Primary and intermediate schools

Unless otherwise stated, all primary and intermediate schools in the Auckland region are coeducational.

Rodney

Hibiscus and Bays

Upper Harbour

Kaipatiki

Devonport–Takapuna

Henderson–Massey

Waitākere Ranges

Great Barrier

Waiheke

Waitemata

The Waitemata local board is the central-most Auckland board, covering the Auckland central business district and several adjacent suburbs, including Freemans Bay,

Grey Lynn Grey Lynn is an inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, located to the west of the city centre. Originally a separate borough, Grey Lynn amalgamated with Auckland City in 1914. Grey Lynn is centred on Grey Lynn Park, which was not part of the ...

, Grafton, Herne Bay, Newmarket, Newton, Parnell, Ponsonby and Westmere.

Whau

Albert–Eden

Puketapapa

Ōrākei

Maungakiekie–Tamaki

The Maungakiekie–Tamaki local board covers the south-eastern part of the

Auckland isthmus The Auckland isthmus, also known as the Tāmaki isthmus, is a narrow stretch of land on the North Island of New Zealand in the Auckland Region, and the location of the central suburbs of the city of Auckland, including the CBD. The isthmus i ...

. Major suburbs include Glen Innes, Mount Wellington,

Onehunga Onehunga is a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand and the location of the Port of Onehunga, the city's small port on the Manukau Harbour. It is south of the city centre, close to the volcanic cone of Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill. Onehunga is a ...

, Panmure, Penrose, Point England, and parts of Royal Oak.

Howick

Māngere–Ōtāhuhu

Otara–Papatoetoe

Manurewa

Papakura

Franklin

Secondary schools

Composite schools

Special schools and teen parent units

Closed schools

*Kelston High School – opened 1954, became Kelston Girls High School (later College) in 1963 after Kelston Boys' High School opened *Westlake High School – opened 1958, became Westlake Girls High School in 1962 after Westlake Boys High School opened.

References

External links

Te Kete Ipurangi
Ministry of Education website
ERO school and early childhood education reports
Education Review Office
Decile change 2007 to 2008 for state & state integrated schoolsWhich School in Auckland
Which School in Auckland {{New Zealand schools