Roxburgh Area School is a combined primary and secondary school on Scotland Street in Roxburgh, Central Otago, taking students the whole way from primary through to senior secondary under one roof. The school runs on a house system and a PTA alongside its academic side, with a Trades Academy and Gateway programme giving older students a path into hands-on and vocational learning, and e-learning built into the wider curriculum. Its values set out clear expectations around respect, honesty, striving for excellence, kindness and taking responsibility for your own learning and behaviour, with pastoral care named as part of how the school looks after individual students. Day to day, parents are asked to phone the office by 8.45am to report an absence, and a text goes to the primary caregiver if a student is away without that. For a small rural town like Roxburgh, having primary and secondary schooling together on one site in Central Otago is a genuine local anchor.