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, police-related incidents, 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.

List DateLocationPerpetrator(s)DeadInjuredTotalDescriptionChristchurch, Canterbury RegionHenry Cunningham011A student stabbed a teacher at Burnham Industrial School.Waikino, WaikatoJohn Christopher Higgins268Waikino 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.Auckland, Auckland RegionUnnamed011A 13-year-old student was stabbed during an argument at Seddon Memorial Technical College.Christchurch, Canterbury RegionUnnamed011A female student stabbed another girl at Aranui High School.Whanganui, Manawatū–WhanganuiUnnamed011A 13-year-old student at Wanganui High School was stabbed on school grounds.Auckland, Auckland RegionPauline Janet Williamson044A woman stabbed four students in the playground of Kadimah College in an anti-Semitic attack.Auckland, Auckland RegionUnnamed055A 12-year-old student armed with an air pistol wounded five other students in the playground of Te Atatu North Primary School.Greytown, Wellington RegionUnnamed011A Kuranui College student was stabbed aboard a school bus after he allegedly bullied the victim.Auckland, Auckland RegionTae Won Chung011A 17-year-old international student at Avondale College stabbed teacher Dave Warren during a lecture.Te Puke, Bay of Plenty RegionUnnamed011A 13-year-old student at Te Puke High School stabbed a teacher multiple times in a classroom.Auckland, Auckland RegionTwo unnamed022A man and a teenager stabbed two other males in a car park on the campus of the Unitec Institute of Technology.Māngere, Auckland RegionUnnamed011A 10-year-old boy stabbed another student at Jean Batten Primary School after being tackled in a game of rugby.Māngere Bridge, Auckland RegionUnnamed011An 11-year-old at Pacific Christian School was stabbed in the head with scissors by another student.Invercargill, Southland RegionUnnamed011A 14-year-old Southland Boys' High School student stabbed another pupil with scissors.Auckland, Auckland RegionFour unnamed022Two students were hospitalized after a stabbing outside De La Salle College during a fight. Four teenagers were charged in connection with the incident.Wellington, Wellington RegionUnnamed011A 15-year-old was charged with stabbing a person at Tawa College.Wellington, Wellington RegionUnnamed011A Wellington Girls' College student was stabbed on campus during an altercation.Christchurch, Canterbury RegionUnnamed022A student with scissors stabbed two teachers at Haeata Community Campus.Greymouth, West Coast RegionUnnamed011A male student at Greymouth High School stabbed another student.Tauranga, Bay of Plenty RegionUnnamed011A student injured another boy with a pocketknife at Ōtūmoetai Intermediate School.Tuakau, WaikatoUnnamed011A Tuakau College student stabbed a teacher in the back and arm.

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