AIMHI (Achievement in Multi Cultural High Schools) is a group of nine decile one urban secondary schools where a large proportion of the schools’ student population come from Maori and Pacific Islands backgrounds

The AIMHI group of schools was established in late 1995. Between 1996 and 2000, significant research on the schools was carried out by Kay Hawk and Jan Hill of Massey University. This emphasised ways in which the schools’ learning programmes could be improved. Out of the research, an AIMHI action plan of educational initiatives began in 1998. This plan was designed to raise the levels of educational achievement of students through:

-ensuring strength in governance and management;

-achieving sustained self-management (the AIMHI Forum, set up in 1998, gave the schools as a collective group, the opportunity to negotiate their own schooling improvement initiatives);

-increasing the rolls of most of the member schools and ensure regular attendance of students;

-improving the relationship between the schools and their communities;

-providing quality teaching in all areas of the New Zealand Curriculum;
-providing on-site health and social support services;
-providing access to alternative education programmes for students not coping in mainstream education;
-developing accessible outdoor education programmes and facilities for students.

Since 1998, AIMHI schools, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, have successfully completed a series of quality educational programmes based on the action plan. Some of the more significant of these programmes are featured on this web site.

The AIMHI strategic plan for 2004-2006 can be found under Resources (search by keyword 'strategic').