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Naenae College Naenae Kāreti
Address
910 High Street, Avalon, Lower Hutt 5011, New Zealand
Coordinates	41°11′48″S 174°56′29″E / 41.1968°S 174.9414°E / -41.1968; 174.9414
Information
Funding type	State
Motto	motto: Kia ihi, kia maru. (Māori: Be strong, be steadfast.)
Established	1953
Ministry of Education Institution no.	259
Principal	Chris Taylor
Years offered	9–13
Gender	Coeducational
School roll	833 (August 2024)
Hours in school day	8:45 am–3:05 pm
Houses	Four   Koruru   Maihi   Amo   Tokomanawa
Colour(s)	Red and Blue
Socio-economic decile	3G
Website	www.naenae-college.school.nz

Naenae College, is a state-run coeducational secondary school located in north-central Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It is situated on a 12-hectare (30-acre) site in the suburb of Avalon. The school was founded in 1953 to serve the Naenae state housing development, although the school is located in the suburb of Avalon.

The school has an enrolment of 833 students from Years 9 to 13 (ages 12 to 18) as of August 2024. Chris Taylor took over as Principal from acting principal John Russell in October 2023.

The 2023 report from the Education Review Office (ERO) identified multiple areas of non-compliance during the board assurance process, and observed that "the school has noticed reduced retention, attendance and engagement."

In the most recent 'Managing National Assessment Report' by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA), conducted in 2018, it was stated, "This review identified inconsistencies in resubmission practice where some teachers offer resubmissions to all students regardless of their grades."

History

Construction of Naenae began the late 1940s under Prime Minister Peter Fraser and the First Labour Government. It was supposed to become a "designer community" of suburban state housing. With the raising of the school leaving age from fourteen to fifteen in 1944, the expansion of Naenae and wider Lower Hutt, and the start of the post-World War II baby boom, Naenae College was built to accommodate secondary school students north of central Lower Hutt.

Naenae College was a prototype for a standardised building design to be used at other new secondary schools across New Zealand. The school was built with long two-story wings of classrooms facing onto corridors, constructed with reinforced concrete on the first level and timber above that. However, construction of the so-called "Naenae type school" was too slow and expensive for a large scale building programme, and subsequently, the Naenae type was largely replaced with a single-storey all-timber version known as the "Henderson type school". Both types lasted four years before being phased out in 1957 in place of self-contained classroom blocks.

The school opened for instruction at the beginning of 1953.

In 2019 it was announced that due to monetary trouble, the Ministry of Education wiped $760,000 of $1m still owed by Naenae College from a 1.6 million dollar loan it received in 2004, this was largest loan ever given to a school by the Crown. Principal Nic Richards had written to the Ministry advising that the servicing of the debt meant that the school's property was in "very poor condition", and it reduced the resources that were available to students.

Naenae College is one of 790 low decile schools in New Zealand that is part of the free school lunch programme.

Enrolment

Naenae College does not operate an enrolment scheme, so the school is open to enrolment from any eligible student. Its effective service area is central-north Lower Hutt, including the suburbs of Avalon, Belmont, Boulcott, Epuni, Fairfield, Kelson, Taitā, Naenae and Wingate. Naenae College is easily accessible from most of the Hutt Valley, with bus routes to Petone, central Lower Hutt, Stokes Valley and Upper Hutt passing outside the school's front gate, and Naenae Railway Station a five-minute walk away.

Naenae College has a roll of 748 students from Years 9 to 13 (ages 12 to 18); with 34% Maori, 22% Pacifika, 23% European and 37% other nationalities. The college currently enrols 30 adult education students and 20 in a Year 12 service academy.

The school has a socio-economic decile rating of 3G (low-band decile 3), meaning it draws its school community from areas of moderately-high socio-economic disadvantage when compared to other New Zealand schools. The current decile came into force in January 2015, after a nationwide review of deciles following the 2013 Census. Previously, Naenae had a decile of 2F (high-band decile 2).

From January 2023, the socio-economic decile rating system will be phased out in New Zealand. It will be replaced with the Equity Index, Naenae College has been given an EQI number of 497.

Academic performance

In 2022, 63.6% of Maori students leaving Naenae College held at least NCEA Level 1, 43.6% held at least NCEA Level 2, 12.7% held at least NCEA Level 3, and 9.2% held at least University Entrance.

Board of trustees

The Naenae College Board of Trustees consists of eleven elected and appointed members.

Principals

Notable staff

• Bruce Murray, international cricketer – served as principal from 1981 to 1988

Notable alumni

Business

• Sir Bob Jones – (attended 1953–1957) businessman and former politician; foundation pupil.
• Sir Paul Adams – businessman and politician
• Mario Wynands – Game developer and Business Owner

Public service

• Sir Stephen Kós – judge at the Supreme Court of New Zealand and former President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.
• Marama Davidson – New Zealand politician
• Craig Foss – politician and investment banker
• Tony Kunowski – New Zealand politician

Broadcasting & journalism

• Dan Wootton – journalist and broadcaster
• Jane Tolerton – New Zealand biographer, journalist and historian

The Arts

• Brooke Fraser – (attended c. 1997–2001), singer-songwriter
• Peter Hambleton – New Zealand stage, film and television actor
• Aaron Tokona – Musician with Weta and Fly My Pretties.
• Michael Hedges – sound engineer
• William Cate and William Robinson aka Bill and Boyd – (attended mid-1950s), pop music duo
• Sarah Jane Parton – New Media Artist
• Luke Whaanga – on New Zealand Idol.
• Monica Galetti – Samoan-born New Zealand Chef

Sport

• Billy Graham – New Zealand boxer
• Shaun Easthope – Samoan footballer
• Trish Hina – female rugby union player
• Mark Sorenson - softball player and coach

Science

• Chris Sibley – Professor

Coat of Arms

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External links

• School website
• Naenae College - (ERO) Education Review Office report

• Educational institutions established in 1953
• Schools in Lower Hutt
• Secondary schools in the Wellington Region
• 1953 establishments in New Zealand