Last updated October 2026
Rototuna Junior High School is a state, co-educational secondary school for Years 7 to 10 at Kimbrae Drive, Rototuna, Hamilton. It opened in 2016 and had 1,371 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Rototuna North, Flagstaff, Huntington and Rototuna, and parts of Whitikahu, Gordonton, Horsham Downs, Puketaha, Taupiri, Harrowfield, Queenwood, Chedworth Park and Chartwell; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school shares its campus with Rototuna Senior High School, and its site describes Year 7 to 9 modules that join two learning areas and are taught by two teachers, a learning advisor who stays with each student throughout, and a chance for older students to try NCEA standards. It runs a Ruma Reo bilingual class that teaches the main subjects in a te ao Māori setting with a strong te reo Māori component, alongside English language learning, learning support, and fee-paying international students and sister-school exchanges.
At a glance
- Principal
- Melissa Moore
- Address
- Kimbrae Drive, Rototuna, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 854 0541
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Rototuna Hamilton, Rototuna North, Flagstaff Hamilton and Huntington.
Parts of Whitikahu near Hamilton, Gordonton near Hamilton, Horsham Downs near Hamilton, Puketaha near Hamilton, Taupiri near Hamilton, Harrowfield, Queenwood Hamilton, Chedworth Park and Chartwell Hamilton: check your street.
Zone boundaries are set by the school’s enrolment scheme and can change. Confirm your address with the school before you rely on it.
Who goes here
Share of the 1,371 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
11 international students
MELAA: Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
Stand-downs and suspensions
Cases per 1,000 students in 2025, adjusted for the ages of the school’s students, compared with all New Zealand schools.
These measure how a school responds to behaviour, and schools set their own thresholds, so they are not a measure of how students behave.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a School Evaluation Report from April 2026. ERO found that most students do well and feel settled, with most in Years 7 to 10 reaching or passing the expected curriculum levels for reading, writing and maths.
Literacy, especially writing, had improved since the previous review, students needing extra help are identified early and are making progress, and ERO noted purposeful leadership, well-planned teaching and te reo Māori and mātauranga Māori woven through the curriculum. Attendance is the weak spot: only a small majority of students attend regularly, although it is improving and chronic absence is falling.
ERO’s priorities for the school are to lift regular attendance to meet government targets, to speed up progress so that every group of students achieves equitably, and to bring in new assessment tools that fit government requirements and the school’s integrated curriculum.
Leaders and the board are to review the attendance plan and student progress data every six months and each year.
Read the ERO reports for Rototuna Junior High School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, and families apply online with proof of address. Any out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places, and the school sets out each year’s enrolment procedure on its enrolment information page.
Moving up to Rototuna Senior High School is not automatic. A new enrolment form is needed for Year 11, and students who enrolled from out of zone, or whose family moves out of the zone, cannot go on to the senior school unless they then live in its zone.
Schools nearby
In Rototuna North
Rototuna Junior High School is in Rototuna North. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Rototuna North guide →Questions parents ask
Is Rototuna Junior High School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Rototuna Hamilton, Rototuna North, Flagstaff Hamilton and Huntington and parts of Whitikahu near Hamilton, Gordonton near Hamilton, Horsham Downs near Hamilton, Puketaha near Hamilton, Taupiri near Hamilton, Harrowfield, Queenwood Hamilton, Chedworth Park and Chartwell Hamilton.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 10.
How many students go there?
1,371 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
It may. It is not in the donation scheme, so it can ask families for donations.
What is its Equity Index?
428. The Ministry of Education’s Equity Index estimates the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, from 344 (fewest) to 569 (most). It is used to share out funding, not as a measure of quality.
School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 22 Oct 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Home zone: Ministry of Education enrolment zones (CC BY 4.0). NCEA results, roll history and stand-downs: Education Counts, school leavers 2023 to 2025, stand-downs 2025, rolls 2021 to 2025 (CC BY 4.0). Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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