Last updated November 2026
Te Hapara School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 31 Mill Road, Te Hapara, Gisborne. It opened in 1911 and had 205 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply.
At a glance
- Principal
- Linda Savage
- Address
- 31 Mill Road, Te Hapara, Gisborne
- Phone
- 06 867 4333
Home zone
No home zone: any student can apply to enrol. If more students apply than there are places, the school decides how places are offered.
Who goes here
Share of the 205 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 School Report from November 2025. ERO judged the school to be working towards strong success and progress for all learners, with good quality teaching and rich learning opportunities across the curriculum.
A small majority of learners meet or exceed the expected curriculum level in reading and in maths, and less than half in writing. Reading and maths results are not yet equitable across groups, and the school has not yet extended progress for learners already at or above the expected level.
Less than half of students attend regularly, so the school is behind the government’s attendance target, though attendance is improving and chronic absence is falling.
On the positive side, ERO saw strong belonging and pride, many sports and cultural activities, well identified literacy support for students who need it, structured literacy in place with structured maths underway, a curriculum linked to local contexts and iwi, and Tongan language learning for students of Tongan descent.
The agreed priorities are to use assessment information more strongly when tracking and reporting achievement, extend structured literacy and make structured maths part of every classroom, strengthen assessment and moderation, work more closely with whānau and the community to shape the curriculum and the school’s direction, and keep lifting attendance.
Read the ERO reports for Te Hapara School
Enrolling
The school has no enrolment zone, so any student can apply. Families can contact the school to ask how to enrol.
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 Te Hāpara
Te Hapara School is in Te Hāpara. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Te Hāpara guide →Questions parents ask
Is Te Hapara School zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
205 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?
524. 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). 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).