Otumoetai Intermediate School will find out tomorrow night whether or not they have won a Prime Minister's Teaching Excellence Awards.
Of the five award categories, the intermediate was a finalist in excellence in engaging, excellence in teaching and learning, and excellence in governing.
Ten staff and students would be selected to attend the awards night, held at Te Papa in Wellington on June 25.
The school had to send in an application form with case studies for each of the categories, which was then judged by a panel of nine education experts.
Principal Henk Popping showed the Bay of Plenty Times Weekend the school's application, a bound A4 booklet of about 200 pages detailing all the work the school has done in the past six years to increase student achievement.