[4] Rangiora High School operates an enrolment scheme to help curb roll numbers and prevent overcrowding.

[8] Students residing outside the zone are sometimes accepted, as roll places allow in accordance with the enrolment scheme order of preference.

In Years 11 to 13, students complete the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), the main secondary school qualification in New Zealand.

Set up in 1910, it started out running stock and growing crops,[9] before being officially opened in November 1930 by Lord Bledisloe, the then Governor-General.

It was planted in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and has now grown into a very large tree.