Last updated October 2026
Manukorihi Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at Manukorihi Road, Waitara. It opened in 1974 and had 211 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply. Its site describes an integrated curriculum with a focus on literacy and numeracy, specialist teaching that includes the arts, languages and digital technologies, and specialist learning and intervention programmes for students with different needs. It also uses the PB4L programme and gives students chances to take on responsibility and leadership.
At a glance
- Principal
- Fiona Low
- Address
- Manukorihi Road, Waitara
- Phone
- 06 754 8025
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.
Who goes here
Share of the 211 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 School Evaluation Report from November 2024. Since its previous review, the school had worked with ERO on teaching reading, and by the end of the year a majority of the targeted students were at expected levels, with most making expected or faster progress and teachers now teaching reading in a more structured way.
Across the school, most students are engaged and making progress and a majority achieve at expected levels, but overall achievement is lower than expected, progress is weaker in reading and maths than in writing, and boys lag in reading and writing.
Less than half of students are at school regularly, which is under the Ministry target, although the school has developed a range of strategies to improve this. ERO found that wellbeing is promoted through the school’s values, students with additional needs are well supported, and te reo Māori, tikanga and mātauranga Māori are woven into the local curriculum.
The agreed next steps are to settle on a standard assessment tool for reading and maths and use assessment consistently across the school, to pin down the practices that make the most difference to achievement, wellbeing and regular attendance and embed them, to build learning partnerships with whānau, and to further embed te ao Māori and te reo Māori in daily school life.
Read the ERO reports for Manukorihi Intermediate
Enrolling
The school has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol. Families complete the enrolment form linked from the school’s enrolment page, together with a vision and hearing consent form, and the uniform page explains where uniform items are bought.
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 Waitara
Manukorihi Intermediate is in Waitara. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Waitara guide →Questions parents ask
Is Manukorihi Intermediate zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
211 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?
512. 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). 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).