Marco is a small rural school set halfway along State Highway 43 - the Forgotten World Highway.

We offer a family atmosphere with 19 delightful ākonga ranging  across years 0-8.  Our students love to get involved in community and sporting events. For sport and some other cultural experiences, we combine with other schools along the Forgotten World Highway to form the Taranaki Eastern Districts Cluster. Our students travel to learn and socialise with other children from the Stratford region throughout each term and we have a variety of EOTC we experience around Taranaki.

We are a well resourced school, with teachers using the most up to date teaching programmes to deliver the New Zealand Curriculum, as well as having individual devices to support our learning. We currently teach ākonga in our two learning spaces . Our Juniors (Years 0-3) in Piwakawaka class and our Senior students (Years 4-8 ) being able to access  our second classroom, Kereru, which also is home to our library and break out teaching space.  Our dedicated art room is our creative zone, always offering  up lots of beautiful pieces of art for display. Our salt-water swimming pool is heated by solar which usually means we can swim from Labour weekend to Easter.

Marco School has a partnership with the Enviroschools team that encourages sustainability and outdoor education. We have some amazing natural wonders already such as  a very productive orchard and vege garden where we grow produce to share with the wider community - as well as our very own pig Pepe!

We employ a wonderful team of staff - made up of passionate, experienced and kind kaiako and community members, who work extremely hard everyday to support our learners to be the best they can be.

I look forward to working with all the new and current ākonga in 2026.