Northcross Intermediate School | |
Motto: | "Individual Growth through Challenge and Learning" |
Address: | 10 Sartors Avenue |
Postcode: | 0630 |
Country: | New Zealand |
Coordinates: | -36.7153°N 174.7272°W |
Other Names: | Northcross |
Type: | State and day intermediate school |
Founded: | 1 February 1970 |
Authority: | State government |
Moe: | 1396 |
Administrator: | Donne Greentree |
Director: | Murray Toohill (ICT), Shannon Hale (Sports), Sharon Hines (International Students) |
Principal: | Jonathan Tredray |
Grades Label: | Years |
Grades: | 7-8[1] |
Gender: | Co-educational |
Roll: | |
Decile: | 10Z[2] |
Northcross Intermediate is a state coeducational intermediate school located in the Northcross suburb in the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Years 7 to 8 are the year group (ages ranging from 10 to 13). The school has students as of . Jonathon Tredray is currently the school principal.[3] [4] [5] The school focuses on "providing a dynamic and student centered learning environment in these very important years of an adolescent’s growth and development."[6] They have a wide range of extra curricular activities, mainly focused in sports and other activities.
Northcross Intermediate School was first opened on 1 February 1970.[7] The school is located in the suburb of Northcross, in the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. Sherwood School, the neighboring primary school (years 1 – 6) directly next to Northcross Intermediate, opened in 1976, 6 years after Northcross Intermediate opened.[8] Both Northcross and Sherwood Primary share the same field.
On the October 2015 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school,[9] Northcross Intermediate had 1351 students. The rolls gender composition consisted of 53% male and 47% female, and the ethnic composition was 53% New Zealand European (Pākehā), 24% Other European, 13% Asian, 8% Māori, 1% Pacific Islander and 1% Other.
Northcross Intermediate has a socio-economic decile of 10Z, meaning that it gets students from higher socio-economic areas compared to other New Zealand schools, such as areas like in the East Coast Bays, and other high socio-economic areas.