Te Wharekura o Mauao
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Bethlehem, Tauranga
263 students on the roll in Bethlehem · EQI 522.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 522. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 1 Westmorland Rise, Bethlehem, Tauranga, 3147
- Roll: 263 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 2008
- Isolation index 0.19, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: All students taught in te reo Māori
- Phone: 07-5793060
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Heywood Kuka
- Website: mauao.school.nz
Who the roll is
Students may identify with more than one group, the counts are the Ministry’s own and need not sum to the roll.
Other schools near here
- Bethlehem School, decile 8 · EQI 423 · 140 m
- Bethlehem College, decile 9 · EQI 409 · 1.5 km
- Te Kura o Manunui, decile 4 · EQI 508 · 1.6 km
- Bellevue School (Tauranga), decile 6 · EQI 445 · 1.9 km
- Ōtūmoetai College, decile 7 · EQI 451 · 2.2 km
- Tauranga Adventist School, decile 6 · EQI 429 · 2.4 km
- Ōtūmoetai Intermediate, decile 7 · EQI 440 · 2.5 km
- Ōtūmoetai Primary School, decile 6 · EQI 433 · 2.5 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 November 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Co-Educational, in Bethlehem.
263 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 522, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 3.
1 Westmorland Rise, Bethlehem, Tauranga. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.