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2.4

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  • Former Student
    2.0
    17 May 2026

    REALLY THINK ABT IT BEFORE SENDING UR KIDS HERE GNG

    My experience at Ani was absolutely horrible. I would have given it a one-star, but I made so many amazing memories with friends, which is why I gave it a two-star. First of all, the staff was not the best. My year 7 teacher was amazing. It was his first year teaching, and guess what, he decided to leave cause he felt ANI wasn't the "best fit" for him. Year 8 was horrible. Not only did I have a racist teacher but she did not know how to teach for jak. The system was rigged and my parents couldin...

  • Former Student
    1.0
    29 April 2026

    My ANI experienced

    Okay, so I’m originally from Kohia Terrace. I moved to ANI because I thought it was a bigger school with more opportunities for my extracurricular activities. I studied there for one term, then decided to move back to Kohia Terrace. I was pretty disappointed with the quality of the schoolwork and how people weren’t nearly as friendly or fun as they are at Kohia Terrace. I was right about one thing, though—the extracurricular activities were awesome, but the rest was definitely disappointing. I...

  • Student
    1.0
    22 November 2025

    Unattended schools also rubbish

    A mental school, only mentally ill people go there. Sarah O’Dea constantly slanders students, doesn't help them, and meddles in everything, even things that aren't her class's business. Don't come to this garbage school, for your own sake.

  • Other
    1.0
    11 November 2025

    Would not recommend this school

    Dont know how to write about so bad by using nice language but my son was never happy and felt he was singled out like a few others and not treated well by a teacher who was picking favourites. He didn’t learn a thing there and ultimately we decided to put him in a private school where teachers actually care and there is real education provided. I guess this school especially enrols out of school kids for just donations

  • Student
    2.0
    26 January 2025

    Horrible school for learning, one of the best schools for sports.

    For starters, the teachers are nice, the exterior and interior are pretty well made and high quality and the sport education is one of the best at Auckland but that’s as far as it goes. ANI is horrible for education, I remember at year 8 we were still learning negative and positive numbers and counting on the number line. A teacher, whose name will be kept secret for their privacy, SLEEPS DURING WHEN HE TEACHES, which is absolutely bizarre as this is “good” school. To conclude, NEVER SEND YOUR C...

  • Former Student
    5.0
    6 January 2025

    A Great, academic school!!

    I was at ANI these past 2 years and it was an amazing experience, we had so many fun adventures like camp, highschool experience day, productions, cultural festivals, amazing race and many more, you can participate in so many things and the teachers are so friendly and kind. Even if your struggling. Just ask one of the teachers and they will help you understand. SPEC is one of the exciting days of the week where we get to experience 4 different subjects (Hard Tech, Food Tech, P.E and Spanish or French depending if your year 7 or 8). I totally recommend this school and some student can be mean but if you find your right group of students, you will have a fantastic 2 years at ANI, in 2020 recently the school hall got burnt down so they rebuilt it and now it's amazing even with a whole tuck shop for the students! This school really cares about their students and their learning experience! Please come to this awesome school!!!

  • Student
    1.0
    17 November 2024

    Unfriendly Teachers, Homophoic People

    The school does not deserve the Rainbow Tick. The students are homophobic and they are proud of it. Ms.S loves targeting innocent people, calling their parents and blaming student for things they didn't do. I am in the school right now and I'm just waiting to be released

  • Student
    4.0
    18 August 2024

    In summary, ANI is not a bad school, but it need to improve more.

    It looks like many people hate ANI, I've read lot reviews on Google Maps and this website. I don't know teachers are biased to students, but for me, Mr C is very nice to students and very passionate about teaching us new things, I'm very sorry to who was teached by biased teacher. This school also teaches us new things, but for maths is very easy and not challenging, at least for the maths-lover like me, prepair maths for high school and let see if they'd prepair for any Pythagoreans, trigonom...

  • Student
    1.0
    14 August 2024

    School is a scam

    I was helping my friend do something then the teacher shouted why did you break the device I didn’t the device was supposed to be foldable the teacher did not care and fined me and my friend the device was literally touch screen

  • Former Student
    2.0
    8 June 2024

    It was alr

    Auckland Normal intermediate isn't even normal why bother calling it that? Some of the students there really need a hiding. Some students are toxic while others are very nice, but it depends on who it is. Some education there is bad, but it also depends on who your teacher is. My year 8 teacher was perfect and helped me a lot while my year 7 teacher was not much. I feel like the people that organises activities etc that include money are hungry for it. Some teachers explained that the money goes towards equipment and other stuff but it doesn't look like it. I feel like they spend the money on other stuff instead of our education or paying the staff that work there. Even one of my teachers said that they don't get paid much. Other than that I enjoyed this school and it was alright it was just some students and education.

  • Student
    3.0
    16 May 2024

    Auckland Normal Intermediate

    ANI Ani is a not too bad school, there are teachers there who challenge you and try to make you thrive it just depends on your attitude towards learning, one thing I noticed about ANI is that you will have at least one year with a bad teacher, last year I had a poor teacher who was kind to only a few students and mean and moody towards others this year my teacher is fun a tad strict but most importantly cares about or grades and learning she tries to help us out as much as she can. However intermediate school is more about preparing us for high school righ? well I dont think they are doing that.

  • Student
    1.0
    21 March 2024

    DON'T COME HERE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE

    I was called a curry munche r we are not allowed to wear pe uniform out of school because it ruins there reputation. The teachers act like they care about bullying so much but they don't I was depressed and didn't want to come to school. My classmate thought we were best friends and made me feel uncomfortable. I told her I hate her and she stopped. Camp at such a early time makes me wanna cry. This school makes me wanna die

  • Student
    1.0
    31 October 2023

    THE WORST SCHOOL EVER AUCKLAND NORMAL INTERMEDIATE

    THIS IS THE WORST SCHOOL EVER DON'T BE FOOLED FOR THIS SCHOOL MAKES YOU DUMB AND LET YOU LOSE BRAIN CELLS I HAVE BEEN THERE 1 YEAR AGO AND THEY DON'T TEACH YOU ANYTHING BUT JUST SUCKS THE MONEY OUT OF YOUR POCKET AND WASTE YOUR KID'S TIME ABSOLUTELY THE WORST SCHOOL, TAKE THEM TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL INSTEAD AND DON'T SEND YOUR KID'S THERE!

  • Former Student
    1.0
    26 October 2023

    ANI is not a school for learning!!!!!!

    The old principle let her nephew work at her school knowing he has a criminal record.Thanks to her two girls got raped and overall just not a school that is good for learning.

  • Former Student
    1.0
    11 September 2023

    Truly a horrible experience

    Waste of time, the school has a rapist as a employee. Corruption, the rapist is also the principal's newphew

  • Student
    1.0
    30 March 2023

    ewwww shreks shut filled with mosquitoes

    This school is an absolute hell, they don't have normal students instead they have monkey chabby kids all around. they teachers do not teach earth knowledge and they dont give a damn if you are dating/vaping/eating or clogging the toilet. which made it smell worse than shrek's hut. the school grounds are dirtier than the public toilet. kids grow in a racist environment and forced to become racist with the bully, so they can defend themselves. kids are racist, sexiest and mean in all ways. and the principle only cares about profit and the school reviews, so they rates their school 5 star on platforms like google maps and this one. honestly dont know whats wrong with this school but a cafe took about 1 year or more to build. now the basketball court is even smaller. my two years at this school was terrible, worst school i was ever in before, kids roast eachother on the ceilings just to look cool, kids dating in the musty crusty toilet and breaking up within 1 minute. even had rapist working in the school.

  • Former Student
    5.0
    16 March 2023

    Loved this school

    A great school. Everyone was extremely supportive and encouraged me to aim high. Lots of students just wanted to cruise but they instilled a great work ethic in me.

  • Former Student
    1.0
    11 February 2023

    not a good school

    Attended this school few years ago and it was one of the worst experiences I had. The teachers do not care about you at all and are very protective of students who engage in bullying and harassment. The curriculum of this school is a joke as you spend most of the time doing nothing and it does not prepare you at all for further education.

  • Former Student
    1.0
    5 January 2023

    Pointless

    School is pretty garbage honestly. Taught me nothing and had to personally study to get on top with subjects throughout other parts of my education. School doesn’t care about its students and successes unless it shines more light on the school. The music program and everything about it is also pointless and many successes I had through my years at this school became unnoticed. Prizes given out to students who don’t really deserve it and are chose based on favouritism of teachers. Overall probably the worst school I have attended throughout it my education and if I could go back in time would never go again.

  • Student
    1.0
    14 December 2022

    Auckland Normal Intermediate

    It is a pretty racist school and does not care about the students. I have spent ages helping the school and received no credit; the only people who get awards are those who pay huge donations. It has an IB-inspired learning theme which means spending hours doing pointless tasks and getting bored, and everything is linked to IB. If used properly, IB is a great system, but ANI has some pre-IB stuff that does not help you learn. They spend so much money trying to make the school look good for new students that they don't give a damn about what is happening inside the school.

  • Student
    1.0
    5 October 2022

    school is a pile of horse kaka

    I'm gonna burn this place down if crime ever becomes legal within the next 3 months. Currently in Year 8, the principal is an uncultured swine who is racist and the most idiotic woman to ever exist, and is the human equivalent of an unsalted pretzel. Students literally smoke and vape. The teachers are okay, most of them generally are fair but they will teach you material from when I still ate the poop out of my butt crack, and make you do tests with stuff that you would generally assume to have originated from another planet. The indoor and outdoor facilities are not so bad, but bullying is a huge problem. The school won't give two damns if a student is being harassed, as long as it doesn't tarnish its reputation. Within the first 5 weeks of 2022, I was told to go back to Asia and stop eating cats and dogs. Oh, and lets not forget that the principal willingly hired a rapist to work here.