List of school attacks in New Zealand

This is a chronological list of school attacks in New Zealand. The term "attack" excludes cases of accidents, attacks committed by police officers, and suicides of one or more people.

In 2024, the Education Review Office, a public office charged with assessing the condition of schools in New Zealand, stated that violence and disrupted behavior in education had risen in the past two years. 32 percent of students who had been stood down in 2022 had been punished for physical assaults on faculty or other students.[1]

List

Date Location Perpetrator(s) Dead Injured Total Description
29 August 1900 Christchurch, Canterbury Region Henry Cunningham 0 1 1 A student stabbed a teacher at Burnham Industrial School.[2]
19 October 1923 Waikino, Waikato John Christopher Higgins 2 6 8 Waikino school shooting: A man opened fire at a school, killing two students and wounding six others, including the headmaster and a responding police officer. He eventually surrendered to police.[3]
16 July 1990 Auckland, Auckland Region Pauline Janet Williamson 0 4 4 A woman stabbed four students in the playground of Kadimah College in an anti-Semitic attack.[4]
14 November 1990 Auckland, Auckland Region Unnamed 0 5 5 A 12-year-old student armed with an air pistol wounded five other students in the playground of Te Atatu North Primary School.[5]
3 March 2009 Auckland, Auckland Region Tae Won Chung 0 1 1 A 17-year-old international student at Avondale College stabbed teacher Dave Warren during a lecture.[6]
10 May 2010 Te Puke, Bay of Plenty Region Unnamed 0 1 1 A 13-year-old student at Te Puke High School stabbed a teacher multiple times in a classroom.[7]
10 March 2011 Auckland, Auckland Region Two unnamed, 19 and 15 0 2 2 A man and a teenager stabbed two other males in a car park on the campus of the Unitec Institute of Technology.[8]
17 August 2011 Māngere, Auckland Region Unnamed 0 1 1 A 10-year-old boy stabbed another student at Jean Batten Primary School after being tackled in a game of rugby.[9]
24 June 2014 Māngere Bridge, Auckland Region Unnamed 0 1 1 An 11-year-old at Pacific Christian School was stabbed in the head with scissors by another student.[10]
6 November 2018 Invercargill, Southland Region Unnamed 0 1 1 A 14-year-old Southland Boys' High School student stabbed another pupil with scissors.[11]
12 June 2020 Auckland, Auckland Region Four unnamed 0 2 2 Two students were hospitalized after a stabbing outside De La Salle College during a fight. Four teenagers were charged in connection with the incident.[12]
16 May 2022 Wellington, Wellington Region Unnamed 0 1 1 A 15-year-old was charged with stabbing a person at Tawa College.[13]
5 July 2024 Wellington, Wellington Region Unnamed 0 1 1 A Wellington Girls' College student was stabbed on campus during an altercation.[14]
19 March 2025 Christchurch, Canterbury Region Unnamed 0 2 2 A student with scissors stabbed two teachers at Haeata Community Campus.[15]
23 July 2025 Greymouth, West Coast Region Unnamed 0 1 1 A male student at Greymouth High School stabbed another student.[16]
3 February 2026 Tauranga, Bay of Plenty Region Unnamed 0 1 1 A student injured another boy with a pocketknife at Ōtūmoetai Intermediate School.[17]

References

  1. ^ Gerritsen, John (28 March 2024). "Rising levels of violence and disruption in the classroom: 'It's getting in the way of teaching'". RNZ. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  2. ^ "Stabbing Case". Hawera & Normanby Star. Vol. XXXXI, no. 70428. 31 August 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  3. ^ "Revisiting a dark day: A mass school shooting – in New Zealand". Stuff. 28 December 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  4. ^ "Woman stabs 4 children at Jewish school". Deseret News. 1 July 1990. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  5. ^ "Children hurt in school shooting". The Northern Echo. 15 November 1990. p. 3. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
  6. ^ "Student jailed for stabbing teacher". Otago Daily Times. 24 September 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  7. ^ "Stabbed teacher relives boy's classroom 'ambush'". NZ Herald. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  8. ^ Neale, Imogen (13 March 2011). "Man in relation to campus stabbing in court". Stuff. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  9. ^ Leask, Anna (22 August 2011). "Police kept in dark over school stabbing". NZ Herald. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  10. ^ Howie, Cherie (12 July 2014). "Boy wakes from coma". NZ Herald. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  11. ^ "Invercargill high school student stabbed in neck with scissors". RNZ. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  12. ^ Hutt, Kendall (16 June 2020). "Māngere school stabbing: Four teenagers charged". Stuff. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  13. ^ Wikaire-Lewis, Mana (17 May 2022). "Teenager charged in Tawa College stabbing". Te Ao Māori News. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  14. ^ Howell, Azaria (8 July 2024). "Wellington student hospitalised after school attack was stabbed". NZ Herald. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  15. ^ Daly, Michael (19 March 2025). "Teachers assaulted by student with scissors at Christchurch school". Stuff. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  16. ^ Gallot, Eva (27 July 2025). "Youth allegedly assaulted student at Greymouth School". Stuff. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
  17. ^ "Boy injures another student in knife incident at Tauranga school". RNZ. 3 February 2026. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
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