Mātauranga sits inside the secondary-school admin office, not the classroom. The work a deputy principal or registrar does on a Friday afternoon to keep NZQA, MoE, the board, and ERO satisfied — without rewriting the same paragraph three times. Distinct from the whānau-facing NCEA layer that lives inside Tōro: Mātauranga reports the cohort upward; Tōro tracks one tamariki for the family.
Expected scope on day one: weekly NCEA report parsing (Achievement Standards progress and UE Literacy / Numeracy gaps surfaced before the term ends), attendance reconciliation against MoE thresholds, board minutes drafted in a format the chair will sign, ERO secondary review evidence bundles assembled from the same data already on file. Pastoral notes inform the cohort view but are read-only — kaiako write them; intelligent automation does not.
Mātauranga covers state and state-integrated secondary schools, Years 9–13. Kura kaupapa Māori, wharekura, and Māori-medium pathways are intentionally out of scope — those carry tikanga and curriculum obligations that warrant a separate pilot, not coverage by default. Ako next door covers early childhood education; together the two kete shape the schooling layer, alone they each stay in their lane.
Mātauranga is live as an Industry Pack kete. Schools can start with a Pilot Sprint against their own exports, minutes, and attendance records so the first evidence pack is grounded in the way the office already works.