Associate Education Minister David Seymour, Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
A new charter school is to be set up in Wellington - among five to be announced this week.
Associate Education Minister David Seymour said it would be the first for Wellington.
The school, Altum, will focus on the the Trivium method of education that draws on classical traditions such as teaching grammar, logic and rhetoric.
There had been increasing demand from parents around the world for the education method, he told First Up.
"One size doesn't fit all. We need to offer opportunities so each child can be educated in a way that draws out their full potential."
The government has set aside $153 million for 15 new charter schools and the conversion of 35 state schools for 2025 and 2026.
It had approved 11 charter schools, all of which were new schools.
Seven opened at the start of the year with an eighth, Twin Oaks Classical School in Auckland, opening in July.
In September, Northland College in Kaikohe was the first state school to publicly declare it wants to become a charter school.
In June, Auckland's Al-Madinah became the first and so far only state integrated school to admit it had applied for conversion.
Three new schools have been approved to open at the start of 2026: an Auckland school with Catholic values called Tōtara Point; Te Kāpehu Whetū, an Auckland boarding school outpost of a former charter school that continued to operate in Whangarei; and the Forest School in Warkworth.
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