The school has been under statutory management since October 2014 following problems with pastoral care, communication and public relations, governance, good practice and employment.
Invercargill-based lawyer Craig Smith, who took over from Nicola Hornsey, has been the school's commissioner since early 2017.
Speaking to the Otago Daily Times on Wednesday, Mr Smith confirmed a community-elected board would be installed and take office on June 14 as part of the national 2019 triennial board of trustees elections, which he said was "very pleasing".
Nominations open on May 10 and close on May 24 for five positions. A pupil representative would also be selected independent of that process.
Mr Smith said plans to install a new board had been afoot for some time and would not have been progressed unless the Ministry of Education and Education Review Office were "confident with where the school was at".
He said the community was informed at the end of last year it was likely a board would be elected in 2019.
"We had a community consultation meeting, in December, where I shared with them at that point this could happen. We had a three-hour meeting with NZSTA (New Zealand School Trustees Association) involved and they were able to talk about boards generally and I was able to put a specific slant on what issues were at Waitaki Boys' High School."
A further two meetings for people to see how board meeting are run will be held before nominations open.
The community "just didn't accept bullies and bullying" today, but that incidents could happen at any school, at any time, Mr Smith said.
"Schools are dynamic environments. When you've got 400 adolescent boys together, stuff happens...it's that sort of environment."
Mr Smith was confident the school was in a position to move on and that if all three of the town's secondary schools worked together, with input from the Waitaki District Council, Oamaru could become a "destination of choice" for pupils outside the region.
