St Anthony's Catholic School (Huntly)
Full Primary · State : Integrated
- Year levels
- 1–8
- Total roll
- 92
- Enrolment zone
- No
- Gender
- Co-Educational
Where is it, and how do I get in touch?
- Address
- 102 Bailey Street, Huntly
- Territorial authority
- Waikato District
- Phone
- 07-8288516
- not reported
- Directions
- Get directions
Other schools nearby: schools in Waikato
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.
- Uniform
- Required
Our Board of Trustees by-law requires all students to wear the regulation uniform within the school at all times.
- Required
Who goes here?
Ethnicity breakdown of the total roll, shown as context. Not ranked, and not compared against any average.
- European
- 21
- Māori
- 15
- Pacific
- 22
- Asian
- 45
- MELAA
- 0
- 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 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Year 02 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 16 |
| Year 03 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| Year 04 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Year 05 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Year 06 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| Year 07 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 |
| Year 08 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 |
| Total | 19 | 27 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 95 |
| Māori | Pacific | Asian | MELAA | Other | European/ Pākehā | International students | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age 05 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Age 06 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| Age 07 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| Age 08 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Age 09 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Age 10 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| Age 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Age 12 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 |
| Age 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | 19 | 27 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 95 |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0
Student engagement
Age-standardised stand-down rate per 1,000 students — 2024
0%
| St Anthony's Catholic School (Huntly) | 0% |
|---|---|
| Waikato Region | 53.9% |
| Full Primary | 35.6% |
| State : Integrated | 16.2% |
| New Zealand | 37.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| Other | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| 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%
| St Anthony's Catholic School (Huntly) | 0% |
|---|---|
| Waikato Region | 6.6% |
| Full Primary | 3.9% |
| State : Integrated | 1.6% |
| New Zealand | 4.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| Other | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| 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%
| St Anthony's Catholic School (Huntly) | 0% |
|---|---|
| Waikato Region | 2.4% |
| Full Primary | 1.7% |
| State : Integrated | 0.5% |
| New Zealand | 1.8% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| Other | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| 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)
- 457
- Boarding
- No
- Language of instruction
- All students taught in English/other setting
- Urban / rural
- Small urban area
- Date opened
- 31 January 1914
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
- 1 December 2023
- Latest report
- Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
- Report type
- Profile report
- Board assurance
- The board attested to all areas (1 December 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 same report — the board assurance report of 1 December 2023 — also sets out actions for compliance: the non-compliance ERO identified during that process. This is that section of the report in full, in ERO’s words.
ERO and the board have identified the following area of non-compliance during the board assurance process:
renewal of police vetting every three years for employees who still work at the school. [Section 104 Education and Training Act 2020, clause 12, schedule 4]
The board has since addressed the area of non-compliance identified.
What ERO wrote in its latest report
This is ERO’s report of 1 December 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 one month of the Education Review Office and St Anthony’s Catholic School (Huntly) 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
St Anthony’s Catholic School is a state integrated full primary school located in Huntly. It provides education for students in Years 1 to 8. A new principal started at the beginning of 2023. The school has strong links to the Huntly Catholic Parish and is an active member of the Waikato Catholic Kāhui Ako .
St Anthony’s Catholic School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:
to enable highly effective teaching pedagogies delivered by reflective practitioners
to raise levels of literacy and mathematics achievement and progress
to create environments that support quality learning.
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on St Anthony’s Catholic School’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively teaching and learning practices are accelerating progress, raising overall levels of achievement, and improving outcomes for all learners. Increasing rates of regular attendance and supporting students to have greater engagement and ownership of their learning are ongoing priorities for the school.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:
the opportunity it provides to respond effectively to school data in addressing the learning needs of all students and raise achievement in literacy and mathematics, with a particular focus on writing
the school’s commitment to minimising barriers to learning and addressing attendance challenges.
The school expects to see deliberate actions implemented to enable increased student engagement and success in learning.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal to improve outcomes for all learners in attendance, progress and achievement:
a positive school culture that contributes to a sense of belonging for students and calm, settled environments for learning
inclusive school practices that support the learning and holistic needs of all students
leadership of learning that collaboratively develops shared knowledge, supports consistency of assessment practices and maintains a strategic focus on improving outcomes for learners.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
strengthening the analysis of data to support effective internal evaluation and inform targeted action for continuous improvement
continuing to build collective capability to meet the diverse needs of all students and enable accelerated learning outcomes
implementing effective strategies to increase attendance, improve engagement and empower students in their own learning through the school’s connected curriculum.
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
1 December 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).