2026 Enrolments will be open from 1st October. (There will be a link for the enrolment form on this day to complete)
(If you are wanting to enrol your child for this year 2025 please contact our school directly by 07-378 8097 or email admin@taupointermediate.co.nz
to make an appointment with our Year 7 or 8 Deputy Principal)
Our contributing Primary Schools are Tauhara Primary, Taupo Primary, Waipahihi Primary and Wairakei Primary.
However we warmly welcome all students from other schools as well.
Please review our zoning requirements below.
ENROLMENT ZONE FROM 2025
Important information for parents:
The Ministry of Education requires Taupō Intermediate School to implement a school enrolment zone commencing 1 January 2025. The guidelines for the development and operation of enrolment schemes are issued under section 72(1) of the Education and Training Act 2020.
This decision may have an impact for some of our school whanau.
Details of the enrolment zone area are as follows:
Home Zone
All students who live within the home zone described below (and shown on the attached map) shall be entitled to enrol at the school:
- Starting from the mouth of the Waikato River, as it exits Lake Taupō, the zone boundary travels west, along the lake shoreline to the mouth of the unnamed stream behind addresses on Seven Oaks Drive and roads coming off this drive (including Otaketake Drive), which are all in zone.
- From this stream mouth the boundary travels north along the stream to meet Whangamata Road, including addresses on Kahikatea Drive, those south of Whangamata Road, and those on Lochridge Drive and Lemonwood Lane.
- The boundary line continues east and south down the centre of Whangamata Road to the western border of address 876 Whangamata Road.
- From here the boundary pivots north and continues straight until crossing Poihipi Road at number 1773 Poihipi Road and on to capture 1716 Poihipi Road.
- From 1716 Poihipi Road the zone boundary travels north-east, crossing Forest Road at number 441 and continuing north-east to Mt. Maroanui. From Mt. Maroanui the zone boundary travels east to the intersection of State Highway 1 and Valley View Lane, capturing all addresses on Valley View Lane.
- From the intersection of Valley View Lane and State Highway 1 the boundary travels north along the centre of State Highway 1 to the intersection with Tutukau Road and includes 2411 Tutukau Road.
- The zone boundary travels in a direct line from the eastern boundary of 2411 Tutukau Road to the intersection of State Highway 5 and Te Toke Road, continuing along the centre of Te Toke Road (including odd-numbered addresses only) to 507 Te Toke Road.
- From 507 Te Toke Road the zone boundary travels south, crossing the Waikato River, and proceeds further south to 1609 Broadlands Road (this address is included in the zone).
- From 1609 Broadlands Road the boundary travels west along Broadlands Road the bridge which crosses the Pueto Stream, then directly on to the fork where the Sexton and Pueto Stream meet. From this fork the boundary proceeds in a southerly direction, just east of the Sexton Stream, around the airstrip, crossing Little Creek and the Pueto Stream (again).
The boundary pivots south-west and travels in a straight line to the Opepe Scenic Historic Reserve on State Highway 5.
- From the Opepe Scenic Historic Reserve the boundary travels westward in a straight line to the fork where the Waioratene Stream and Mangamutu Stream meet. From this fork the boundary continues south to cross the Waitahanui River, behind 100 Blake Road (this address included in the zone), and continues around and includes addresses on Blake Road and Wairau Ave, to State Highway 1. The boundary crosses State Highway 1 and travels around (and includes) addresses on Rotongaio Road to 62A Rotongaio Road, which is on the edge of Lake Taupō.
- From 62A Rotongaio Road the boundary travels northward, along the shoreline of Lake Taupo to the mouth of the Waikato River as it exits Lake Taupō, in the urban Taupō Township.
Out of Zone Enrolments
Each year the Board of Trustees will determine the number of places which are likely to be available in the following year for the enrolment of students who live outside the home zone.
Applications for enrolments will be processed in the following order of priority:
- First priority must be given to students who have been accepted for enrolment in the above special programme(s) run by the school and approved by the Secretary for Education. Taupō Intermediate do not operate any special programmes.
- Second priority must be given to applicants who are siblings of current students.
- Third priority must be given to applicants who are siblings of former students.
- Fourth priority must be given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school.
- Fifth priority must be given to any applicant who is either a child of an employee of the board of the school or a child of a member of the board of the school.
- Sixth priority must be given to all other applicants.
If there are more applicants in the second, third, fourth, or fifth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by ballot. Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by public notice in a medium appropriate to the area served by the school.
Applicants seeking second or third priority status may be required to give proof of a sibling relationship.
Proof of residence within the home zone may be required.
Transitional Arrangements
For families of currently enrolled students whose addresses become out of zone as a result of the amendment of this Enrolment Scheme. Section 75 of the Education and Training Act 2020 states that, “The Secretary may authorise an enrolment scheme to permit a student to enrol at the school as if the student lived in the home zone of the school if,
(a) in the case of an existing enrolment scheme whose home zone is amended, —
(i) the student lives outside the amended home zone; and
(ii) the student has a sibling who is enrolled at the school at the time that the amendment is implemented; and
(iii) the sibling, at the time that the amendment is implemented, lives inside the home zone as it was before the amendment; and
(iv) the student, at the time of enrolment, lives inside the home zone as it was before the amendment:
(b) in the case of a new enrolment scheme, the student,
(i) lives outside of the home zone of the new enrolment scheme; and
(ii) has a sibling who is enrolled at the school at the time that the new enrolment scheme is implemented.
This provision has been approved for inclusion in this Enrolment Scheme for a period of 5 years from the 1st January 2025.
If applying for enrolment under this part of the Enrolment Scheme, the siblings name, and evidence of a sibling relationship may be required by the school.
The school will maintain a list of students enrolled at the time of the implementation of the enrolment scheme and its adoption by the board to enable determination of eligibility to enrol under this provision.
Contact
If you have any queries relating to the implementation of this enrolment scheme and its potential impact on you, please direct to Taupō Intermediate Board of Trustees Presiding Member – email presidingmember@taupointermediate.co.nz