OUR COLLEGE

Upper Hutt College was founded in 1962. It is a state co-educational college with some 1250 students presently, including around 30 international students. It is a decile 7 college and the student body is around 66% Pakeha, 20% Maori, 4% Pacific Islander and 10% other. Students begin in year 9 and can continue through to year 13. Currently, year 13 students are able to wear mufti, while the rest of the students wear uniform.

The college has a strong house system, with a Head of House and two deans for each house, as well as a vertical form structure, in which students from all year levels are brought together in house groupings. The students move through their college years in the same form class with the same form teacher. The houses are named after iconic New Zealand figures: Blake (red), Hillary (yellow), Jackson (green) and Te Kanawa (blue). Besides the competition engendered by the house system, it also provides many leadership and participation opportunities for our students.

 The college offers a wide variety of subject options (see our curriculum section) as well as many extra-curricular opportunities (see our sports and co-curricular sections).

Starting in 2010 with the construction of a new Sports Centre, the college is undertaking a $20 million plus property redevelopment which will see three original Nelson blocks demolished and replaced with modern state-of-the-art teaching spaces (see our building programme section.