Massey High School

Massey High School is a co-educational secondary school, founded in 1969, which serves the communities around the Massey area in west Auckland. As a large school of over 1600 students, Massey has many advantages, including the ability to offer curriculum diversity and access to a wide range of extra-curricular groups and activities.

At Massey we emphasise creating a culture of learning that prepares students for their futures and enables them to become lifelong learners. We demand the highest behavioural standards and expect students and staff to be accountable for their actions. Relationships are caring and respectful with adults warmly challenging students to reflect on their progress and guide them to create great futures. All stakeholders can access knowledge, skills and support and guidance. Students are at the heart of all decisions that are made, and there are transparent avenues for success and high expectations.

These expectations create optimal learning environments, where teaching skills are developed and honed. There is individual and whole-staff professional learning to ensure staff remain effective, current and of the highest calibre.

Teachers in high quality learning environments enable students to discover a knowledge-based curriculum where students then interact with new information, concepts, and ideas by analysing, investigating, evaluating, creating solutions and developing the skills needed for 21st century success.

Massey High School has built a proud record of academic achievement with outstanding pass rates in external examinations. Many of our top students gain National Scholarships. We are also a lead provider of trades academy education offering exciting opportunities for some of our students as well as students from a number of other local and distant schools. World-class vocational pathways and qualifications are enabled with high rates of success.

The school can boast an extensive extra-curricular programme with numerous other opportunities including leadership training, extension classes, sports, music, the arts, performing arts, clubs and cultural activities. Our students have huge pride in attending and representing Massey High School.

Our Massey High School Values of Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga, and Rangatiratanga permeate all we do as we prepare our students for life in 21st century New Zealand and the wider world. Our four Houses and horizontal tutor structure mean that our learners are known and cared for as individuals. The school’s team of Deans, Ākina Leaders, Teachers, Counsellors, Nurses, Careers staff, and Support Staff work closely together to support all our young people.

At Massey High School that staff strive to ensure that our students graduate not only having achieved the highest qualification possible in their chosen pathway, but also having developed into young adults who are articulate communicators, who think critically, who are open minded and accept diversity, who understand respectful relationships, and who have had a rounded experience and enjoyed success. Furthermore, to realising the core principle of Te Tiriti o Waitangi which is partnership, and that everyone, student, staff, whānau, Māori and non-Māori alike, can walk confidently in two worlds.

We believe that by providing our students with exceptional opportunities and experiences, both inside and outside the classroom, we will grow aspirational leaders who will influence their community and lead happy and successful lives. Massey High School provides our students with the opportunity to pursue a multitude of learning pathways depending on where their aspiration and passion lies. These pathways recognise that success takes many different forms for our students. Our world leading Academies programmes further strengthen those choices.

Our school offers an array of sporting, cultural, leadership, and arts opportunities that are critical to ensuring that our students enjoy their time at school. They enhance their wellbeing, their growth as well-rounded young adults, and their connection to our school.

We have high expectations for our students in terms of engagement, behaviour, uniform, and attendance. We embrace innovation, creativity and best practice teaching which allows for an academically rich environment. Our number one asset are our teachers, who are absolutely committed to building positive relationships, crafting curriculum, and leading a classroom that engages students. You would be hard pressed to find teachers elsewhere who are more committed to the growth and development of their students as those at Massey High School.