Last updated October 2026
Gisborne Girls’ High School is a state, girls’ secondary school for Years 9 to 13 at 555 Gladstone Road, Te Hapara, Gisborne. It opened in 1955 and had 691 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply. Its learning support unit, Te Korowai Tautoko, offers tailored programmes and individual education plans for students with special needs, and its kapa haka group, Tūranga Wāhine Tūranga Tāne, brings together students from Gisborne Girls’ High and Gisborne Boys’ High, alongside a Pacific performance group. International students can take English as a second language classes as well as full NCEA courses.
At a glance
- Principal
- Belinda Hannah
- Address
- 555 Gladstone Road, Te Hapara, Gisborne
- Phone
- 06 868 6092
Home zone
No home zone: any student can apply to enrol. If more students apply than there are places, the school decides how places are offered.
NCEA results
School leavers with NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with all New Zealand school leavers.
This school New Zealand
School leavers are students who left school that year, whatever year level they left from.
Who goes here
Share of the 691 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
12 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.
Suspensions: fewer than 5 cases in 2025, so no rate is shown.
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 Profile Report from August 2023, written under ERO’s Te Ara Huarau improvement approach. The evaluation looks at how giving mātauranga Māori equal standing is helping Māori students to succeed.
ERO noted an inclusive culture in which students take part in significant decisions, areas of the school with strong culturally responsive practice that others can learn from, and the capacity to use feedback and achievement information to judge the effect of changes.
The school’s priorities are to rework the curriculum in every learning area through a mātauranga Māori lens, keep growing teachers’ knowledge of te reo, tikanga and mātauranga Māori, and use student and whānau voice and achievement information to see what the changes mean for Māori learners.
Read the ERO reports for Gisborne Girls’ High School
Enrolling
Gisborne Girls’ High School has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
The enrolment page has the prospectus, the application for enrolment and the enrolment pack, and families can also enrol online through the school’s portal. International students have their own page with fees and how to enrol.
Schools nearby
In Te Hāpara
Gisborne Girls' High School is in Te Hāpara. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Te Hāpara guide →Questions parents ask
Is Gisborne Girls' High School zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 9 to 13.
How many students go there?
691 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
No. It is in the donation scheme, so it only asks for donations for school camps.
What is its Equity Index?
488. 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.
Is it a single-sex school?
Yes. It takes girls only.
How did its school leavers do in NCEA?
In 2025, 71.3% of its school leavers had NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with 77.8% of all New Zealand school leavers.
School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 22 Oct 2026 (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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