Last updated October 2026
Tauhara School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 90 Crown Road, Tauhara, Taupo. It opened in 1959 and had 275 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Tauhara, Hilltop, Rotokawa, Maunganamu and Taupō Central; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school teaches in both English medium and Māori medium, and its rūmaki classes, Tauhara Te Ahorangi, take a limited number of new students each year. Its site lists structured literacy and maths, play-based learning for new entrants, kapa haka for every student through Taiopenga Tūwharetoa, swimming lessons, EPRO 8 digital technology and leadership programmes for senior students, and inter-school sport.
At a glance
- Principal
- Tracy Fraser
- Address
- 90 Crown Road, Tauhara, Taupo
- Phone
- 07 378 7755
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Tauhara, Hilltop, Rotokawa, Maunganamu and Taupō Central: 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 275 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 March 2023. It sets out an evaluation that ERO and the school agreed to work on together: how far culturally responsive, relationship-based teaching lifts engagement, behaviour and learning for every student.
ERO listed several strengths the school can build on. These include its focus on boys’ achievement through teacher inquiry and a class for boys only, its use of the Rongohia Te Hau survey to gather the views of students, staff and whānau, and its work with Ngāti Tūwharetoa on a local curriculum grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
From here the school plans to bring the Tūwharetoa Cultural Competencies into its local curriculum, so learning feels more relevant to students and attendance improves. It also aims to deepen teachers’ understanding of Ngāti Tūwharetoatanga with support from iwi, and to help teachers learn te reo Māori through the Te Ahu o Te Reo Māori programme.
Read the ERO reports for Tauhara School
Enrolling
Children who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Out-of-zone places are offered under the enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places, with students accepted into the rūmaki programme given first priority, followed by siblings of current students. The school publishes its out-of-zone places and ballot dates in its newsletter and on its website each year.
Entry to Tauhara Te Ahorangi starts with a pre-enrolment form and an interview with whānau and kaiako. The school asks that children have attended kōhanga reo for at least two years or have te reo Māori spoken at home. New entrants start school in groups on set dates under cohort entry.
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 Tauhara
Tauhara School is in Tauhara. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Tauhara guide →Questions parents ask
Is Tauhara School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Tauhara, Hilltop, Rotokawa, Maunganamu and Taupō Central.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
275 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?
522. 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).