Te Awa, Napier

Te Awa is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island.

It consists of a mix of 1920s small railway workers' houses which survived the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Art Deco homes built during the 1960s and 1970s, and twenty-first century subdivisions.[1]

The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "the valley" for Te Awa.[2]

Education

Te Awa has two schools:

Residents also use two other schools:

  • Napier Intermediate, a co-educational state intermediate school,[10] with a roll of 357, provides intermediate education.[11]
  • Napier Girls' High School is single-sex state high school,[12][13] with a roll of 1,021 as of November 2024.[5][14]

References

  1. ^ "Once seen as a small suburb, Te Awa has started to take off". New Zealand Media and Entertainment. Hawke's Bay Today. 4 March 2019.
  2. ^ "1000 Māori place names". New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 6 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Te Awa School Official School Website". nbhs.school.nz.
  4. ^ "Te Awa School Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  5. ^ a b "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  6. ^ "Te Awa School Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.
  7. ^ "Napier Boys' High School Official School Website". nbhs.school.nz.
  8. ^ "Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  9. ^ "Napier Boys' High School Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.
  10. ^ "Napier Intermediate Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  11. ^ "Napier Intermediate Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.
  12. ^ "Napier Girls' High School Official School Website". nghs.school.nz.
  13. ^ "Napier Girls' High School Ministry of Education School Profile". educationcounts.govt.nz. Ministry of Education.
  14. ^ "Napier Girls' High School Education Review Office Report". ero.govt.nz. Education Review Office.

39°31′02″S 176°54′05″E / 39.517220°S 176.901394°E / -39.517220; 176.901394


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