Tauhara College

Tauhara College
Address
Invergarry Road Taupō , 2730 New Zealand
Coordinates	38°41′49.92″S 176°6′15.54″E / 38.6972000°S 176.1043167°E / -38.6972000; 176.1043167
Information
School type	State secondary
Motto	Committed to Excellence!
Established	1975; 50 years ago (1975)
Ministry of Education Institution no.	166
Principal	Ben Hancock[1]
Faculty	43
Years offered	9–13
Gender	Co-ed
School roll	664[2] (November 2024)
Colour(s)	Blue and gold
Socio-economic decile	6N[3]
Website	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).

The students in the school are divided into four 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)

• Donovan Bixley – illustrator, author of Faithfully Mozart^[4]
• 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
• Melina Hamilton – pole vaulter, Olympian
• Sammie Maxwell (born 2001) – cross-country cyclist^[5]
• Todd McClay – Member of Parliament for Rotorua; former Cook Islands diplomat (Ambassador to European Union)
• Dion Waller – former New Zealand All Black

• Tauhara College
• TKI School Information: Tauhara College^{[permanent dead link‍]}