Tauranga Intermediate
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TypeState Co-educational Intermediate
MottoKimihia kia taea
Explore and Achieve
Explore and Achieve
Established1958
| Tauranga Intermediate | |
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| Location | |
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30 18th Avenue, The Avenues, Tauranga | |
| Coordinates | 37°42′49″S 176°09′16″E / 37.7136°S 176.1545°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State Co-educational Intermediate |
| Motto | Kimihia kia taea Explore and Achieve |
| Established | 1958 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 1990 |
| Principal | Cameron Mitchell |
| Enrollment | 1250 |
| Socio-economic decile | 5 |
| Website | tauranga-int.school.nz |
Tauranga Intermediate is an Intermediate school situated in Tauranga, New Zealand. It is the largest in the country, with over 1,300 students in 45 classrooms.
Tauranga Intermediate, since the early days of the school, has had house groups which over the years have changed very much.
- In the 1980s there were four houses:
Matai, Tawa, Rimu and Kauri.
- Sometime in the late 1990s two additional houses were created, these being Totara and Rata.
- In 2006 3 new houses were created being Miro, Kahikatea and Tanekaha.
- In 2009 A new house Manuka was created.
House Colours:
- Miro (Orange)
- Tawa (Dark Blue)
- Totara (Purple)
- Tanekaha (Light Blue)
- Matai (Yellow)
- Kahikatea ([Light Green)
- Rata (Black)
- Rimu (Red)
- Kauri (Dark Green)
- Manuka (Pink)[1]