New Zealand - Auckland - Otara Intermediate School - Room 1, Form 1 - 1963 - Contributed By Clive Macann Do you have more information about the school or the people in this photo? Please use the comment section below to share. To search for other photos from this school, please type the schools name in to our search engine. Otara Intermediate School - The school opened in 1953 on a site adjacent to Dominion Breweries on Great South Road in Papatoetoe. - The school was called Otara Intermediate School, the name used then for that part of the district. - The 650 pupils enrolled at that time came from both Papatoetoe and the surrounding district. - The school was renamed Papatoetoe Intermediate in 1968 to avoid confusion with the suburb of Otara taking shape a kilometre or so to the east (Kedgley Intermediate was formerly named Papatoetoe Intermediate until principal Maurice Kedgley died in office). - The planning name of the school was "Middlemore Intermediate" but this name was never adopted