Kaipara Flats School
Contributing · State
- Year levels
- 1–6
- Total roll
- 109
- Enrolment zone
- Yes
- Gender
- Co-Educational
Where is it, and how do I get in touch?
- Address
- 20 School Road, Warkworth
- Territorial authority
- Rodney Local Board Area
- Phone
- 09-4225819
- office@kaiparaflats.school.nz
- Directions
- Get directions
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Can my child go here?
This school has an enrolment scheme, so a place is not open to every address. How enrolment zones work
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Zone boundaries shown here are approximate. Ministry of Education data warns these boundaries do not have high spatial precision and can place neighbouring addresses on different sides of a line. This is not a confirmation of enrolment eligibility — always confirm directly with the school. Zone geometry also does not reflect enrolment priority rules (siblings, special character categories, ballots) — it shows the mapped boundary only.
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Source: Ministry of Education, CC BY 3.0 NZ
What would the day look like?
The practical things this school states on its own website — the hours, the uniform, the term dates, and how children get there. These are the school’s own words, not the Ministry’s record and not ERO’s.
Quoted from this school’s own website, as we read it on 13 August 2026. A web page carries no date of its own, so that is the day we read it — not a statement that any of this is still the case. Each line quotes the words it came from.
- Term dates
- Term 1, 2026: Wednesday, 4th Feb. – Thursday, 2nd April
Term 1 Start – Wednesday, 4th Feb. Finish – Thursday, 2nd April
Year stated as2026 Term Dates
- Term 2, 2026: Monday, 20th April – Friday, 3rd July
Term 2 Start – Monday, 20th April Finish – Friday, 3rd July
Year stated as2026 Term Dates
- Term 3, 2026: Monday, 20th July – Friday, 25th Sept.
Term 3 Start – Monday, 20th July Finish – Friday, 25th Sept.
Year stated as2026 Term Dates
- Term 4, 2026: Monday, 12th October – Thursday, 16th Dec.
Term 4 Start – Monday, 12th October Finish – Thursday, 16th Dec.
Year stated as2026 Term Dates
- Term 1, 2026: Wednesday, 4th Feb. – Thursday, 2nd April
- Getting there
- Upon enrolment, families will be informed if they reside within our school bus zone and are therefore eligible to use the bus service.
What is on offer beyond the classroom?
The sports, arts, clubs and groups this school names on its own website. Not a complete list of what any school offers, and not a count — a school that names more here has written more down, which is not the same as doing more.
Quoted from this school’s own website, as we read it on 13 August 2026. A web page carries no date of its own, so that is the day we read it — not a statement that any of this is still the case. Each line quotes the words it came from.
- On offer
- Swimming Sports
- Swimming Sports – A fun and competitive event where students showcase their swimming skills.
- Cross Country
- Cross Country – A challenging but rewarding event that promotes endurance and determination.
- Athletics Day
- Athletics Day – A day filled with track and field events that test strength, speed, and agility.
- Football
Sports include Swimming, Cross Country, Athletics, Football, Hockey, and much more!
- Hockey
Sports include Swimming, Cross Country, Athletics, Football, Hockey, and much more!
- cricket
Students have access to a range of afterschool sporting opportunities, including cricket, touch rugby, netball, basketball, and hockey, to name a few.
- touch rugby
Students have access to a range of afterschool sporting opportunities, including cricket, touch rugby, netball, basketball, and hockey, to name a few.
- netball
Students have access to a range of afterschool sporting opportunities, including cricket, touch rugby, netball, basketball, and hockey, to name a few.
- basketball
Students have access to a range of afterschool sporting opportunities, including cricket, touch rugby, netball, basketball, and hockey, to name a few.
- Swimming Sports
Who goes here?
Ethnicity breakdown of the total roll, shown as context. Not ranked, and not compared against any average.
- European
- 100
- Māori
- 17
- Pacific
- 2
- Asian
- 3
- MELAA
- 4
- Other
- 0
- International
- 0
Roll by year level and age
Shown as context, not ranked, not compared to any average. As at 30 June 2026, from the same annual return as the roll count above.
| Māori | Pacific | Asian | MELAA | Other | European/ Pākehā | International students | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 01 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 16 |
| Year 02 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 13 |
| Year 03 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| Year 04 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 17 |
| Year 05 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 23 |
| Year 06 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 18 |
| Year 07 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
| Total | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 110 | 0 | 117 |
| Māori | Pacific | Asian | MELAA | Other | European/ Pākehā | International students | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age 05 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 14 |
| Age 06 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 16 |
| Age 07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| Age 08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| Age 09 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 23 |
| Age 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 17 |
| Age 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
| Total | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 110 | 0 | 117 |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0
Student engagement
Age-standardised stand-down rate per 1,000 students — 2024
0%
| Kaipara Flats School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 29.7% |
| Contributing | 35.6% |
| State | 40.2% |
| New Zealand | 37.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| Other | 0% |
| European/Pākehā | 0% |
| Total | 0% |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0 — Table 2: Comparison stand-down rates data (2024)
Age-standardised suspension rate per 1,000 students — 2024
0%
| Kaipara Flats School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 3% |
| Contributing | 3.5% |
| State | 4.5% |
| New Zealand | 4.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| Other | 0% |
| European/Pākehā | 0% |
| Total | 0% |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0 — Table 2: Comparison suspension rates data (2024)
Age-standardised exclusion rate per 1,000 students — 2024
0%
| Kaipara Flats School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 1.4% |
| Contributing | 1.5% |
| State | 1.9% |
| New Zealand | 1.8% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| Other | 0% |
| European/Pākehā | 0% |
| Total | 0% |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0 — Table 2: Comparison exclusion data (2024)
About the school
- Equity Index (EQI)
- 425
- Boarding
- No
- Language of instruction
- All students taught in English/other setting
- Urban / rural
- Rural settlement
- Date opened
- 25 January 1878
The Equity Index is used by the Ministry to allocate equity funding. It describes the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, not how good the school is. How the Equity Index works
What did ERO find?
The Education Review Office reviews every school and publishes what it finds in full. We quote ERO’s report here, section by section, in ERO’s own words and order, and link to it. We do not summarise a report, pick a line out of one, or turn one into a score. How ERO reviews schools
- Reports ERO holds
- 3
- Last reviewed
- 24 August 2023
- Latest report
- Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
- Report type
- Profile report
- Board assurance
- The board attested to all areas (24 August 2023)
A board assurance statement is the board’s own account of whether it took all reasonable steps to meet its legal obligations, on the date shown. It is not ERO’s finding. ERO reports separately, in the same report, on any non-compliance it identified during that process.
The board assurance report of 24 August 2023 carries no actions-for-compliance section — the section ERO uses when it names non-compliance it identified. That is what this report contains; it is not ERO saying it found none. Other reports ERO holds for this school may say something different.
The roll ERO recorded, and when
ERO writes a roll into each report it publishes: a count taken for that report, on the day shown, by the review team that was there. The Ministry of Education’s current roll for this school is 109 — the figure at the top of this page, and the one to use for how big the school is now. These are a different measurement by a different body, so they will rarely agree, and a difference between them is not a change in the school.
March 2017
85
Counted while ERO’s review team was at the school. Education Review Office, report of 21 June 2017
This is one count taken for one report. It says what the roll was on that day, and nothing about how the roll has moved.
What ERO wrote in its latest report
This is ERO’s report of 24 August 2023 — “Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report” — section by section, under ERO’s own headings, in ERO’s own order. Nothing is summarised, shortened or reordered.
Background
This Profile Report was written within 13 months of the Education Review Office and Kaipara Flats School working in Te Ara Huarau , an improvement evaluation approach used in most English Medium State and State Integrated Schools. For more information about Te Ara Huarau see ERO’s website. www.ero.govt.nz
Context
Kaipara Flats School is a rural school in Kaipara Flats, Warkworth. The school provides education for students in Years 1 to 6. The school’s vision is ‘Succeeding Together - Te angitu tahi ’. A new principal was appointed in 2018.
Kaipara Flats School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:
Growing our learners to be the best they can be
Growing the way we learn today, empowering and inspiring us for the future
Growing our wellbeing so that all learners can thrive and succeed
Growing our connections with our community.
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Kaipara Flats School’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well implementation of the local curriculum is achieving equitable outcomes for all learners.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to create a resilient local curriculum which is focused on growing and celebrating the strengths of learners using a research-informed approach based on developing learner dispositions.
The school expects to see:
confident and capable learners who can choose, design, pursue, troubleshoot and evaluate learning for themselves
teachers consistently using effective teaching strategies and practices in adaptive ways to promote excellent and equitable outcomes for all learners.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to evaluate how well implementation of the local curriculum is achieving equitable outcomes for all learners:
leadership effectively prioritises and plans for school improvement and for equitable and excellent outcomes for learners
a collaborative professional learning culture focused on supporting learners to make choices and decisions about their own learning
learners who are increasingly engaged, curious and collaborative.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
continuing to support reflective, flexible teaching and learning through targeted professional development
strengthening learning centred relationships with whānau and families to grow a deeper understanding of learning dispositions
collecting student voice and experiences to inform curriculum design.
ERO’s role will be to support the school in its evaluation for improvement cycle to improve outcomes for all learners. ERO will support the school in reporting their progress to the community. The next public report on ERO’s website will be a Te Ara Huarau | School Evaluation Report and is due within three years.
Shelley Booysen Director of Schools
24 August 2023
About the School
The Education Counts website provides further information about the school’s student population, student engagement and student achievement. educationcounts.govt.nz/home
Read the full report on ero.govt.nz →
All 3 reports ERO holds for this school
ERO reviews a school every few years — around four years between reviews is the usual cycle — so an older date here reflects where a school sits in that cycle, not how it is doing.
Source: Education Review Office, CC BY 4.0.
Roll date: 30 June 2026 (2026).