Wainuiomata College
| Wainuiomata High School | |
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| Address | |
| Parkway Wainuiomata Lower Hutt 5014 New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 41°15′09″S 174°56′09″E / 41.2526°S 174.9358°ECoordinates: 41°15′09″S 174°56′09″E / 41.2526°S 174.9358°E |
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| Funding type | State |
| Motto | Aspire, Inspire |
| Established | January 2002 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 478 |
| Principal | Martin Isberg |
| Years offered | 9–13 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Colour(s) | Bottle green and black |
| School roll | 659(July 2017) |
| Socio-economic decile | 3I |
| Website | www |
Wainuiomata High School is a state co-educational secondary school situated in Wainuiomata, a suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The school was founded in January 2002 from the merger of Wainuiomata College and Parkway College. A total of 659 students from Years 9 to 13 (ages 12 to 18) attend the school as of July 2017.
In the early 2000s, the government reviewed the entire state school network in Wainuiomata under the direction of Minister of Education (and Wainuiomata resident) Trevor Mallard. At the time, the suburb of 16,000 people had two secondary schools, Wainuiomata College (opened 1963) and Parkway College (opened 1972). Both schools had declining roll numbers and their facilities were underutilised; in the 2001 school year, Wainuiomata College had 450 students and Parkway College had 350 students. It was decided to rationalise the two secondary schools by merging them to form a new single secondary school, Wainuiomata High School on the Parkway site. The merger took effect in January 2002, ready for the 2002 school year.
Parkway College, like most New Zealand state secondary schools built in the 1970s, was of the S68 common design plan. The S68 is characterised by single-story classroom blocks of concrete block construction, with low pitched roofs, internal open courtyards, and protruding south-facing clerestory windows (although the clerestory windows have since been removed at Wainuiomata) When the two schools merged on the one site, the combined 800 students exceeded the capacity of the school's three S68 blocks (A, B and C blocks), requiring relocatable classrooms to be moved on site to deal with the extra students. Government funding saw a new five-classroom "social sciences" block (F block) open in early 2004 as a permanent solution. However, the school's roll soon increased to 940 students, requiring the relocatable classrooms to remain.
The old Wainuiomata College site was abandoned, and in 2005, it was used as the filming location for the first series of school-based comedy Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby. Much of the old school was destroyed in an arson attack in July 2010.
Wainuiomata High School does not operate an enrolment scheme, so the school is open to enrolment from any eligible student. Its effective service area is the entire Wainuiomata Valley, although it is easily accessible from most parts of Lower Hutt via the 160 "Wainuiomata North" public bus route, which stops outside the school and connects to Waterloo Interchange railway station and the Queensgate bus interchange in central Lower Hutt. In 2008, it was estimated around 40 students attending the school (or 5% of the roll) resided outside of Wainuiomata.
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