Wakatipu High School and Queenstown Primary School are each losing funding for two full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers next year, but both principals say permanent staff will not lose their jobs.
However, some fixed-term contracts might not be renewed.
The Ministry of Education announced in August that the high school would lose its year 7 and 8 pupils to Queenstown Primary School.
Wakatipu High School principal Lyn Cooper said the school's teacher allocation had dropped from 53.9 FTE to 51.47 FTE.
The school will lose its year 7 classes next year and year 8 in 2011.
"We have sufficient fixed-term positions that we can relinquish to allow no permanent staff to be affected," she said.
The school would look at the option structure to find out what students' needs were, permanent staff would be allocated and fixed-term contracts would fill in any gaps, she said.
"We may not have to lose two people," Mrs Cooper said.
Hours and responsibilities could be altered to keep teachers on.
A teacher on a fixed-term contract had already indicated they did not want to renew their contract.
Remarkables Primary School principal Debbie Dickson said four teachers, including herself, had already been employed.
The recruitment process was under way for a further eight teachers for next year.
She declined to say whether applicants included those on fixed-term contracts at other Queenstown schools.
She hoped the new teachers would be announced by the end of the month.
Queenstown Primary School principal John Western said his school would have to lose 2.1 FTE teachers next year.
No permanent staff would be affected but some fixed-term contracts would not be renewed, he said.
However, the school had advertised for two permanent teachers to replace two who were leaving next year.
"We have a large pool of candidates. We have mid-50 applicants for the two permanent positions," he said.
