Tauranga Intermediate School

Tauranga Intermediate School

Eligibility
To be eligible for a ride on the school bus your family needs live beyond the limits of the Regional Council’s Schoolhopper bus service. To view Schoolhopper routes, please click here.

Out of transport zone families
Many of the families attending Tauranga Intermediate live closer to Kaimai, Te Puna or Whakamarama Schools. For this reason, the Group is not able to provide a bus service in all cases. This affects families living in the following areas:

  • Te Puna, east of Snodgrass Road
  • Whakamarama, south of 134a Whakamarama Road
  • Youngson Road, south of Plummer Road
  • Omanawa Road south of Peers Road
  • McLaren Falls Road, Ruahihi Road and Gunga Lane
  • Poripori and Kumikumi Roads

TIS students living in these areas are able to catch the bus to school, but they must make their own way to the zone boundaries unless they have permission from those neighbouring schools. Families living in those neighbouring school zones are also required to pay a fare.

Bus services
The following buses provide a service to Tauranga Intermediate.

Area
Route
Welcome Bay East
R1
Kaitemako Road
R3
Ohauiti Road
R4
Oropi Gorge, Glue Pot Road, Mountain Road
R5
Warner Road, Hereford Road, Oropi Road
R6
Pukemapu Road, Phillips Drive
R7
Taumata Road, Belk Road S, Pyes Pa Road
R8
Joyce Road, Pyes Pa Road
R9
Upper Kaimais
R10
McLaren Falls Road, Omanawa
R11
Ruahihi Road, Poripori Road
R12
Belk Road, Omanawa Road
R13
Munro Road, Pahoia
R17
Wairoa Road, Crawford Road, Minden Road
R18
Plummer’s Point
R19
Omokoroa
R23

In the afternoons, R20 provides an overload service between school and the Bethlehem transfer point where all Tauranga Intermediate students must disembark.