Te Awa is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island.

It consists of a mix of 1920s small railway workers' houses which survived the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Art Deco homes built during the 1960s and 1970s, and twenty-first century subdivisions.^[1]

The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "the valley" for Te Awa.^[2]

Te Awa has two schools:

• Te Awa School, a co-educational Year 1-6 state primary school,^[3][4] with a roll of 174 as of February 2024.^[5][6]
• Napier Boys' High School, a single-sex state school,^[7][8] with a roll of 1,321.^[9]

Residents also use two other schools:

• Napier Intermediate, a co-educational state intermediate school,^[10] with a roll of 342, provides intermediate education.^[11]
• Napier Girls' High School is single-sex state high school,^[12][13] with a roll of 1,058 as of February 2024.^[5][14]