Riverhead School
Full Primary · State
- Year levels
- 1–8
- Total roll
- 469
- Enrolment zone
- Yes
- Gender
- Co-Educational
Where is it, and how do I get in touch?
- Address
- 21 School Road, Riverhead
- Territorial authority
- Rodney Local Board Area
- Phone
- 09-4129105
- admin@riverhead.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.
- School day starts
- 8:25am
8:25am - Bell - Start of school
- 8:25am
- School day ends
- 2:30pm
2:30pm - End of School
- 2:30pm
- Uniform
Not stated on the school’s website.
- Getting there
- The bus runs from Borics to Barretts Road; the Walking School Bus operates every afternoon, leaving school no later than 2.40pm
The bus runs from Borics to Barretts Road. Our wonderful and popular Walking School Bus operates every afternoon (leaving school no later than 2.40pm)
- The bus runs from Borics to Barretts Road; the Walking School Bus operates every afternoon, leaving school no later than 2.40pm
- How to enrol
- http://www.riverhead.school.nz/enrolment-information
Please enrol online [HERE](http://www.riverhead.school.nz/enrolment-information).
- http://www.riverhead.school.nz/enrolment-information
What does the school say about itself?
Quoted, not summarised. Every school describes itself well, so this is here to be read as the school’s own case rather than as a finding — and a school that states nothing simply has no row.
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.
- International students
- Accepted, as stated
We have current experience with short stay groups from Japan, Korea and China and long stay students from Germany and Switzerland.
- Accepted, as stated
- Voluntary donation
- $250.00 per child, 2026
School Donations are $250.00 (per child) in 2026.
- $250.00 per child, 2026
Who goes here?
Ethnicity breakdown of the total roll, shown as context. Not ranked, and not compared against any average.
- European
- 372
- Māori
- 48
- Pacific
- 18
- Asian
- 57
- MELAA
- 20
- Other
- 1
- 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 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 48 |
| Year 02 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 56 | 0 | 68 |
| Year 03 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 51 |
| Year 04 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 64 |
| Year 05 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 55 | 0 | 68 |
| Year 06 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 48 | 0 | 58 |
| Year 07 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 66 |
| Year 08 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 30 |
| Total | 63 | 21 | 60 | 18 | 5 | 371 | 0 | 453 |
| Māori | Pacific | Asian | MELAA | Other | European/ Pākehā | International students | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age 05 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 48 |
| Age 06 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 54 | 0 | 66 |
| Age 07 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 50 |
| Age 08 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 67 |
| Age 09 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 56 | 0 | 69 |
| Age 10 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 48 | 0 | 57 |
| Age 11 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 59 |
| Age 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 30 |
| Age 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| Total | 63 | 21 | 60 | 18 | 5 | 371 | 0 | 453 |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0
Student engagement
Age-standardised stand-down rate per 1,000 students — 2024
4%
| Riverhead School | 4% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 29.7% |
| Full Primary | 35.6% |
| State | 40.2% |
| New Zealand | 37.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 7.5% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| Other | 0% |
| European/Pākehā | 5% |
| Total | 4% |
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%
| Riverhead School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 3% |
| Full Primary | 3.9% |
| State | 4.5% |
| New Zealand | 4.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| 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%
| Riverhead School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 1.4% |
| Full Primary | 1.7% |
| State | 1.9% |
| New Zealand | 1.8% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| 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)
- 389
- Boarding
- No
- Language of instruction
- All students taught in English/other setting
- Urban / rural
- Small urban area
- Date opened
- 25 January 1872
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
- 5
- Last reviewed
- 15 May 2023
- Latest report
- Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
- Report type
- Profile report
- Board assurance
- The board attested to all areas (15 May 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 15 May 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 469 — 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 2016
291
Counted while ERO’s review team was at the school. Education Review Office, report of 8 June 2016
July 2011
276
Counted while ERO’s review team was at the school. Education Review Office, report of 1 September 2011
We draw no line between these. Each was counted for its own report, years apart, by a different review team, and a roll moves between reviews for reasons none of these figures record — so the difference between any two of them measures nothing.
What ERO wrote in its latest report
This is ERO’s report of 15 May 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 12 months of the Education Review Office and Riverhead 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
Riverhead School is in Riverhead, Auckland and caters for Year 1 to Year 8 students. The vision for the school is underpinned by the creation of innovative learning environments where teaching, learning and leading is collaborative and learner agency is a priority.
Riverhead School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:
empower learners to be critical and creative thinkers who have the power to act and discover their potential
support teacher efficacy to embed collaborative pedagogies throughout the school
authentically collaborate with the community to cultivate a successful inclusive learning environment
continue to embrace a school culture that is reflective, and a fun, fair, safe place to be and learn.
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Riverhead School ’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how well the school’s innovative and collaborative culture promote efficacy, agency, and resilience to achieve equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to:
further build shared staff expectations for the implementation of innovative and collaborative practices that impact positively and drive student progress and lift achievement
determine the extent that the school’s innovative and collaborative practices are culturally responsive
determine what the critical influences are that support students to become resilient, agentic and confident learners.
The school expects to see as the result of the evaluation:
the school driving progress and lifting achievement for all learners
learners highly engaged in authentic, real-life experiences
learners being able to demonstrate that they are critical, creative, agentic and resilient
learners being engaged and actively involved in their own learning
authentic community partnerships are being further strengthened.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support the school in its evaluation:
committed school leaders with high levels of expertise in leading learning
teachers who are highly reflective, passionate, and effective practitioners
highly reflective inquiry practices that inform the school’s strategic direction, curriculum design and implementation
a highly supportive teaching and learning environment where innovation and creativity are prioritised.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
which elements of the school’s culture promotes success
continuing to undertake in-depth data analysis of priority and targeted learners to determine next steps
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
15 May 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 5 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).