Last updated October 2026
Ilminster Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 70 De Lautour Road, Gisborne. It opened in 1960 and had 308 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Wainui Beach, Tamarau, Whataupoko, Okitū, Kaiti, Outer Kaiti and Inner Kaiti, and parts of Mangapapa, Mātokitoki and Waimatā Valley; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
Each year students choose a home-room centre (Challenge, Expressive, SciTech or Xcel), where afternoon inquiry learning is taught through the arts, PE, or science and technology, and every student also attends the Connections centre for food, art, science and music.
Most mornings are spent in Matauranga classes taught by subject teachers, there is a learning support space for extra help with reading, writing and maths, and the school lists kapa haka, drama, bands, science club and a wide range of sports, with its own gymnasium and swimming pool.
At a glance
- Principal
- Jonathan Poole
- Address
- 70 De Lautour Road, Gisborne
- Phone
- 06 867 6233
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Tamarau, Inner Kaiti Gisborne, Outer Kaiti Gisborne, Wainui Beach, Whataupoko Gisborne, Kaiti and Okitū.
Parts of Mangapapa, Mātokitoki and Waimatā Valley: check your street.
Zone boundaries are set by the school’s enrolment scheme and can change. Confirm your address with the school before you rely on it.
Who goes here
Share of the 308 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
MELAA: Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
Stand-downs and suspensions
Cases per 1,000 students in 2025, adjusted for the ages of the school’s students, compared with all New Zealand schools.
These measure how a school responds to behaviour, and schools set their own thresholds, so they are not a measure of how students behave.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a School Evaluation Report from January 2025. ERO found most students engaged in learning and progressing well, and reliable data shows most, including Māori students, make clear gains over their two years, a pattern that has held over time.
Students with additional learning needs are included and progress well, and the specialist literacy and maths teachers who lead the school’s Matauranga learning centres have made a marked difference to achievement.
ERO also found that regular attendance is well below the Ministry of Education target, that the school does not yet use its data to show clearly how many students reach expected curriculum levels, and that partnerships with whānau are at an early stage.
ERO’s agreed next steps are to make better use of the data the school collects to report achievement against curriculum levels and track attendance patterns, strengthen communication with whānau to support attendance and learning, keep building teachers’ te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and mātauranga Māori, and check how professional learning is changing students’ progress.
Read the ERO reports for Ilminster Intermediate
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. The school may also offer out-of-zone places each year under its enrolment scheme, with a ballot if there are more applicants than places.
Enrolment applications are made online, and the school publishes its enrolment and out-of-zone application dates on its enrolment page each year.
Schools nearby
Where students go next
Based on home zones around the school’s own address. Families can apply to any school, and your own address decides which zones you are in.
In Inner Kaiti Gisborne
Ilminster Intermediate is in Inner Kaiti Gisborne. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Inner Kaiti Gisborne guide →Questions parents ask
Is Ilminster Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Tamarau, Inner Kaiti Gisborne, Outer Kaiti Gisborne, Wainui Beach, Whataupoko Gisborne, Kaiti and Okitū and parts of Mangapapa, Mātokitoki and Waimatā Valley.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
308 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
No. It is in the donation scheme, so it only asks for donations for school camps.
What is its Equity Index?
508. The Ministry of Education’s Equity Index estimates the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, from 344 (fewest) to 569 (most). It is used to share out funding, not as a measure of quality.
Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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Sources and data notes 1
- School facts: School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 29 Oct 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Home zone: Ministry of Education enrolment zones (CC BY 4.0). NCEA results, roll history and stand-downs: Education Counts, school leavers 2023 to 2025, stand-downs 2025, rolls 2021 to 2025 (CC BY 4.0).