Last updated October 2026
Kaiti School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 517 Wainui Road, Kaiti, Gisborne. It opened in 1907 and had 415 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Tamarau, and parts of Kaiti, Outer Kaiti, Inner Kaiti and Wainui Beach; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes mainstream and bilingual Māori classes, kapa haka for every class, sports academies including football and hockey, a weekly physical activity programme for students with high needs, and an Out the Gate programme that takes groups out by bike to learn about te taiao. It also describes Tū Rangatira, its Year 7 and 8 class, and a weekly transition-to-school programme for four-year-olds.
At a glance
- Principal
- Billie-Jean Ayton
- Address
- 517 Wainui Road, Kaiti, Gisborne
- Phone
- 06 867 7831
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Tamarau.
Parts of Kaiti, Outer Kaiti Gisborne, Inner Kaiti Gisborne and Wainui Beach: 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 415 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.
Suspensions: fewer than 5 cases in 2025, so no rate is shown.
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 Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from April 2024. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well the school’s assessment tools in mathematics guide teaching and lift results, as a new maths programme comes in.
ERO pointed to a local curriculum that keeps improving and aims for fair outcomes for every learner, engaged students with trusting relationships with staff, leadership that builds trust and consults widely, and strong professional capability.
In the rumaki and bilingual setting, ERO found tamariki with a strong sense of identity and belonging, capable kaiako who model quality te reo Māori, and learning tied to the tikanga and stories of Ngāti Porou.
Next, the school plans to use research to find assessment tools that give reliable information about progress, trial and evaluate them through a strategic inquiry, and build teachers’ confidence with new assessment practice through professional learning. For the rumaki and bilingual classes, the priority is to weave te reo Māori, tikanga and mātauranga Māori consistently through all learning programmes.
Read the ERO reports for Kaiti School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
The school’s site says families can collect an enrolment pack from the office and return it with the child’s birth certificate or passport, and that all new entrants, for both the mainstream and bilingual Māori classes, take part in the transition-to-school programme before they start.
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 Kaiti
Kaiti School is in Kaiti. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Kaiti guide →Questions parents ask
Is Kaiti School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Tamarau and parts of Kaiti, Outer Kaiti Gisborne, Inner Kaiti Gisborne and Wainui Beach.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
415 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?
535. 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).