Hawera High School

The school's history began as a primary school in 1875, which was reformed as a district high school in 1901. In 1919, the school was again changed, this time as a technical school, with an opening roll of 180 students. The school moved from its original site in Princes Street to a new base in Camberwell Road two years later. The school had a roll of around 400 by the outbreak of World War II. The roll continued to grow in the post-war years, reaching a peak of over 1000 in the early 1970s.[4] The current roll sits between 720 and 750 students.

In late 2021, it was announced that Hāwera High School and Hāwera Intermediate would close, and a new, Years 7–13, school would open in 2023.[5] The new school was named Te Paepae o Aotea, a name gifted by local iwi Ngāti Ruanui and Ngāruahine.[6]

• Aroha Awarau, playwright and journalist
• Michael Bent (born 1986), Rugby Union Player, International Rugby Player for Ireland
• Ian Clarke (1931–1997), All Black and rugby administrator
• Enid Evans (1914–2011), chief librarian at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Library
• Issac Luke (born 1987), rugby league player
• Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922–1972), author
• William Sheat (1899–1982), member of parliament[7]
• Hiwi Tauroa (1927–2018), rugby union player and Race Relations Conciliator
• Lene Westgaard-Halle (born 1979), politician, member of the Norwegian Parliament
• Adine Wilson (née Harper, born 1979), Silver Fern