{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox school | name = Tauhara College | image = Tauhara.jpg | image_size = 275px | address = Invergarry Road | city = Taupō | country = [[New Zealand]] | postal_code = 2730 | coordinates = {{coord|38|41|49.92|S|176|6|15.54|E|type:edu_scale:1000_region:NZ}} | principal = Ben Hancock<ref>{{cite web |title=from disruption to discovery |url=https://www.furnware.com/en-nz/articles/tauhara-college |website=Furnware |publisher=Furnware |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref> | faculty = 43 | enrollment = {{NZ school roll data|166|y||y}} <small>({{NZ school roll data|||y}})</small> | decile = 6N<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.minedu.govt.nz/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/SchoolOpsResourcing/OperationalFundingDeciles/DecileChanges_20142015.xls |title= Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools |publisher= Ministry of Education |accessdate= 12 February 2015 |archive-date= 24 January 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150124000031/http://www.minedu.govt.nz/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/SchoolOpsResourcing/OperationalFundingDeciles/DecileChanges_20142015.xls |url-status= dead }}</ref> | MOE = 166 | gender = Co-ed | schooltype = secondary | fundingtype = State | years = 9–13 | motto = ''Committed to Excellence!'' | colours = [[Blue]] and [[Gold (color)|gold]] {{color box|blue}} {{color box|yellow}} | established = {{start date and age|1975}} | website = [http://www.tauhara.school.nz www.tauhara.school.nz] }}
'''Tauhara College''' is a state coeducational secondary school located in [[Taupō]], New Zealand. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has approximately 600 students.
Tauhara College is one of three high schools in Taupō; the others are [[Taupo-nui-a-Tia College]] and [[Lake Taupo Christian School]] (state integrated).
== Enrolment == As of {{NZ school roll data|3=y}}, Tauhara College has a roll of {{NZ school roll data|166|y}} students, of which {{NZ school roll data|166m|y}} ({{Decimals|{{formatnum:{{NZ school roll data|166m|y}}|R}}/{{formatnum:{{NZ school roll data|166|y}}|R}}*100|1}}%) identify as Māori.{{NZ school roll data|4=y}}
As of {{NZ school equity index data|203||y|||}}, the school has an [[Equity Index (New Zealand)|Equity Index]] of {{NZ school equity index data|166|y||||}},{{NZ school equity index data|28|||y||}} placing it amongst schools whose students have the {{NZ school equity index data|166b|y||||}} socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 4 and 5 under the former [[Socioeconomic decile|socio-economic decile]] system).<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=School Equity Index Bands and Groups |url=https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/data-services/guidelines/school-equity-index-bands-and-groups |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.educationcounts.govt.nz |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
==Waka== The students in the school are divided into four [[Waka (canoe)|waka]] ("canoes") which compete in numerous events, mostly sporting, throughout the year in order to gain the most points in the Tauhara College Canoe Competition. The houses, and the colours they are represented by, are:
*Aotea (blue) *Arawa (green) *Mataatua (red) *Tainui (yellow)
==Notable alumni== * [[Donovan Bixley]] – illustrator, author of ''Faithfully Mozart''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.storylines.org.nz/Profiles/Profiles+A-C/Donovan+Bixley.html|title=Donovan Bixley|publisher=Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust|accessdate=4 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163530/http://www.storylines.org.nz/Profiles/Profiles+A-C/Donovan+Bixley.html|archive-date=14 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Bevan Docherty]] – Triathlete, Olympic silver medalist * [[Te Ururoa Flavell]] – Minister of Māori Development; leader of the Māori Party; former Head of Māori Studies * [[Carly Flynn]] – journalist, presenter of ''[[Sunrise (New Zealand TV program)|Sunrise]]'' * [[Melina Hamilton]] – pole vaulter, Olympian * [[Sammie Maxwell]] (born 2001) – cross-country cyclist<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marshall |first1=Chris |title=Taupō's Sammie Maxwell has a mountain bike dream |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/taupo-times/114576556/taups-sammie-maxwell-has-a-mountain-bike-dream |access-date=18 September 2023 |work=[[Waikato Times]] |date=29 July 2019}}</ref> * [[Todd McClay]] – Member of Parliament for Rotorua; former Cook Islands diplomat (Ambassador to European Union) * [[Dion Waller]] – former New Zealand All Black
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.tauhara.school.nz/ Tauhara College] * [http://www.tki.org.nz/e/schools/display_school_info.php?school_id=166/ TKI School Information: Tauhara College]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}
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