Tauraroa Area School

Tas sucks. Teachers education sucks. If you get bullied nothing will get done and I speak from experience. People fight. This school may look like rainbows and perfection but it’s really not it is the opposite

Great school. There are good reasons families send their kids here from all around the Whangarei district. The staff genuinely care, all ages and abilities of students are catered for.

My 3 kids loved their time at TAS, all going through to Y13 then onto university. The care and commitment shown by management, teachers and support staff was unwavering. It’s a good size - lots of opportunities but small enough for all students to matter. My kids weren’t perfect, but I found they were always treated fairly. Pastoral care and discipline was always consistent and appropriate. I recommend this school without reservation, through all primary and secondary year levels.

Poorly run school wouldn't send my kids back there in a million years. Teaching young children the wrong stuff about sex and suicide completely unacceptable

Please avoid sending your child to this school! Students have almost drowned on school trips due to bad management, cameras in the bathrooms, teachers threatening to CUT necklaces with a bolt cutter because they don't like them, all these things and worse will happen to your child and they won't let you know about any of it, school to parent communication is terrible.

Teachers teach outdated information and let their personal opinions corrupt the lesson. One example is: At that school I was basically taught that if someone tries cannabis they are evil and will be guaranteed to be addicted to harder drugs. It's not a catholic school. Have no idea how to "use" the government services, took me months to get a KiwiBank account. Had never heard of IRD or WINZ and all the rest until going on the benefit. Worst of all, I went there since year 1 and still can't swim, the only song I can play is hot-cross-buns on the keyboard... I can't believe they put Mr Kelly as a counsellor a few years back (might still be) his anger is 100x worse than mine!

Horrible school, Horrible teachers, Out of touch view on education, besides the bullying problem the administration dose their best to try hide they don't offer nearly enough variety when it comes to classes, almost every other NCEA school in northland will offer a better education then this garbage dump of a school

I feel that the school does not take bullying seriously. Multiple times I was told to get over it or ignore it. They don't allow for mental health to be a factor into doing work and had forced me into multiple situations I wasn't comfortable being in.