Tereora College is a secondary school in Nikao,

Rarotonga Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands. The island is volcanic, with an area of , and is home to almost 75% of the country's population, with 13,007 of a total population of 17,434. The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings a ...

, Cook Islands. It is the oldest secondary school in the Cook Islands and the national college of the Cook Islands for Year 9-13 students. The school was first established in 1895 by the London Missionary Society. It closed in 1911 by the New Zealand colonial administration. It was re-opened in 1954 as a public school. The junior school offers the Cook Islands National Curriculum, while the senior school offers levels 1 - 3 of the New Zealand National Certificate of Educational Achievement. The school buildings were built in the 1950s, but by 2015 were old and damp. In 2015 during the celebrations of the Cook Islands' 50th anniversary of self-government, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced an $11.7 million gift to redevelop the college. The redevelopment was to be designed by two former students who had studied architecture in New Zealand, and run in partnership with the Cook Islands investment Corporation. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern opened stage one of the redevelopment in March 2018. A book on the early history of the school, ''Below the Bluff at Nikao'', was published in 1995. Ardern Tereora College 2018

School ''Anau''

The school groups students into four ''anau'' each named for a mountain on Rarotonga: Students stay in the same ''anau'' class for their whole time at school.

Notable alumni

Pa George Karika Pa George Karika (1 August 1893 – 5 May 1949) was a New Zealand-Cook Islands leader, clerk, soldier and farmer. Decorated for gallantry during the First World War, he was the only Cook Islander awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. From ...

(born 1893), soldier and ''ariki'' * Jim Marurai (born 1947), 8th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands * Mike Tavioni (born 1947), artist * Mark Brown, Deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands * Teariki Heather (born 1959), politician and Deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands *

Margharet Matenga Margharet Norma Matenga (née Kamana; born ) is a former Cook Islands netball player, coach and administrator. She played for both the New Zealand national netball team and Cook Islands national netball team and was the first Pacific Islander t ...

(born 1955/56), netball player, NZ Silver Ferns & Cook Is * Ngamau Munokoa (born 1944), Cabinet Minister and the first woman Deputy Prime Minister *

Tina Browne Tina Pupuke-Browne (born 4 April 1955) is a Cook Islands politician and a member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is the leader of the Democratic Party. Career Brown was born in 1955 and is from the island of Rakahanga and is the daughter of ...

, lawyer and Democratic party leader * William (Smiley) Heather (born 1958), former Democratic Party leader * Terepai Maoate Jnr (born 1961), MP

References

{{reflist Schools in the Cook Islands Avarua Educational institutions established in 1895 1896 establishments in the British Empire