Last updated October 2026
Highlands Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 260A Coronation Avenue, New Plymouth. It opened in 1955 and had 714 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes 13 suburbs in full and parts of 13 more, among them Paraite, Hillsborough, Ridgewood, Upper Vogeltown, Vogeltown and Glen Avon; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes technology rooms for robotics, food technology, ICT, materials and science, a music suite with instrument lessons, a choir, rock band and orchestra, school productions, and te ao Māori learning that covers te reo Māori, tikanga and kapa haka.
Sport runs through every term, from cricket, surfing and touch to rugby, netball, hockey, mountain biking and skiing, both year groups go on camp, and the school takes international students, who can stay with a homestay family.
At a glance
- Principal
- Mark Luff
- Address
- 260A Coronation Avenue, New Plymouth
- Phone
- 06 758 4162
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Paraite, Welbourn, Ridgewood, Glen Avon New Plymouth, Vogeltown New Plymouth, Highlands Park New Plymouth, Merrilands, Lower Vogeltown New Plymouth, Hillsborough, Brooklands New Plymouth, Upper Vogeltown, Strandon New Plymouth and Fitzroy.
Parts of Frankleigh Park New Plymouth, Waiwhakaiho New Plymouth, New Plymouth Central, Ferndale New Plymouth, Sentry Hill, Burgess Park, Hurworth, Egmont Village, Bell Block New Plymouth, Lepperton, Inglewood, Mangorei and Brixton: 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 714 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 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together rather than rating results, and here the focus is how well students respond to new ways of teaching and learning maths.
ERO noted that the school already has embedded systems to track every student’s achievement and progress, suitable expertise from inside and outside the school to support the work, an environment that is increasingly relational and culturally responsive, and an established inquiry model it can use to judge success.
Next, the school planned to draw on that expertise for teachers’ inquiry and professional learning in maths, find ways to make maths learning richer and deeper, look more closely at learning evidence so teaching responds better to every student, and use its existing systems to monitor the outcomes it values.
Read the ERO reports for Highlands Intermediate
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone are accepted automatically. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme in priority order, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
Families can enrol through the online form linked from the enrolment page, or print the documents and email them to the school, with proof of address for in-zone students. The enrolment page sets out the out-of-zone closing and ballot dates for the coming intake.
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 Welbourn
Highlands Intermediate is in Welbourn. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Welbourn guide →Questions parents ask
Is Highlands Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Paraite, Welbourn, Ridgewood, Glen Avon New Plymouth, Vogeltown New Plymouth, Highlands Park New Plymouth, Merrilands, Lower Vogeltown New Plymouth, Hillsborough, Brooklands New Plymouth, Upper Vogeltown, Strandon New Plymouth and Fitzroy and parts of Frankleigh Park New Plymouth, Waiwhakaiho New Plymouth, New Plymouth Central, Ferndale New Plymouth, Sentry Hill, Burgess Park, Hurworth, Egmont Village, Bell Block New Plymouth, Lepperton, Inglewood, Mangorei and Brixton.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
714 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?
444. 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, 22 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).