Last updated October 2026
Hutt Valley High School is a state, co-educational secondary school for Years 9 to 13 at 84-114 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt. It opened in 1926 and had 2,001 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes 19 suburbs in full and parts of 7 more, among them Waiwhetū, Sorrento Bay, Māhina Bay, York Bay, Gracefield and Melling; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes NCEA courses through to Level 3 across learning areas that include Te Ao Māori, languages, the arts and a Learning Pathways area, plus gifted and talented and Scholarship support, a house system, and sport that students can play socially or competitively.
Tautoko, its supported learning centre, teaches students with higher learning needs in small groups with a focus on life skills and a programme that prepares seniors for leaving school, and the school welcomes international students.
At a glance
- Principal
- Denise Johnson
- Address
- 84-114 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
- Phone
- 04 566 4584
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Melling, Harbour View near Wellington, Moera, Alicetown, Woburn, Maungaraki near Wellington, Waiwhetū, Lowry Bay, Māhina Bay, Days Bay, Gracefield near Wellington, Korokoro near Wellington, York Bay, Sunshine Bay, Eastbourne, Point Howard, Petone, Sorrento Bay and Seaview.
Parts of Hutt Central, Waterloo, Horokiwi Wellington, Normandale, Tirohanga near Wellington, Epuni near Wellington and Fairfield: check your street.
Zone boundaries are set by the school’s enrolment scheme and can change. Confirm your address with the school before you rely on it.
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 2,001 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
73 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 Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from February 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will look at together, here what evidence can show the school about how an inclusive classroom culture, built through visible learning practices, improves results for students.
The school wants to see more Māori students moving on to tertiary courses and more students taking part in te reo and tikanga Māori, kapa haka, the performing and creative arts and leadership roles.
ERO noted a structured, step-by-step plan for staff professional learning shaped by culturally responsive teaching, positive relationships that make for calm and focused classrooms, a habit of review by students and staff that feeds into next steps, and flexible ways of learning for students who need extra support.
Next, the school planned to run professional learning for all staff, led by senior leaders and heads of learning areas, where staff share visible learning practices and evaluate them, to build a common understanding of how teachers can review their own practice and talk openly about what is and is not working for their students, and to track the effect of this work on groups of students using the views of teachers, students and whānau.
Read the ERO reports for Hutt Valley High School
Enrolling
Hutt Valley High School has an enrolment scheme, so students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol.
Out-of-zone places are offered under the scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places, with priority for siblings of current and former students, children of former students and children of staff; places in Tautoko, the supported learning centre, are not decided by ballot.
In-zone families apply online, and the school encourages them to enrol early so their child can take part in Year 9 subject selection and an enrolment conversation. The school publishes its out-of-zone application and ballot dates on its enrolment page each year. International students apply through an enrolment form sent in by their agent.
Schools nearby
In Woburn
Hutt Valley High School is in Woburn. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Woburn guide →Questions parents ask
Is Hutt Valley High School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Melling, Harbour View near Wellington, Moera, Alicetown, Woburn, Maungaraki near Wellington, Waiwhetū, Lowry Bay, Māhina Bay, Days Bay, Gracefield near Wellington, Korokoro near Wellington, York Bay, Sunshine Bay, Eastbourne, Point Howard, Petone, Sorrento Bay and Seaview and parts of Hutt Central, Waterloo, Horokiwi Wellington, Normandale, Tirohanga near Wellington, Epuni near Wellington and Fairfield.
What years does it teach?
Years 9 to 13.
How many students go there?
2,001 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
It may. It is not in the donation scheme, so it can ask families for donations.
What is its Equity Index?
421. 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.
How did its school leavers do in NCEA?
In 2025, 80.6% of its school leavers had NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with 77.8% of all New Zealand school leavers.
Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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Sources and data notes 1
- School facts: School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 28 Oct 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Home zone: Ministry of Education enrolment zones (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).