Currently, there is no specialist school serving Gisborne, Wairoa and the wider Tairāwhiti region. Alongside the base specialist school, an extra two satellite teaching spaces will be provided on the shared school site of Te Wharau School and Ilminster Intermediate School, Inner Kaiti, Gisborne. “We have funded an additional 122 specialist classrooms including two new specialist schools announced earlier this year. Today’s announcement brings that to three new specialist schools, we are also upgrading six existing specialist schools. This includes the establishment of Gisborne Specialist School, as well as the earlier announced specialist schools in Palmerston North and Drury, South Auckland.