St Mary's School (Mosgiel)
Full Primary · State : Integrated
- Year levels
- 1–8
- Total roll
- 132
- Enrolment zone
- No
- Gender
- Co-Educational
Where is it, and how do I get in touch?
- Address
- 87 Church Street, Mosgiel
- Territorial authority
- Dunedin City
- Phone
- 03-489 7716
- office@stmarys-mosgiel.school.nz
- Directions
- Get directions
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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.
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.
- In their words
- We have since adapted these to form our school values which are:
- Respect Compassion Service Justice Care
- Special character
- St Mary’s is a Catholic school, our Catholic Special Character is the essence for our school's existence and the beliefs of Catholic Christians are inherent in all facets of our daily lives.
Who goes here?
Ethnicity breakdown of the total roll, shown as context. Not ranked, and not compared against any average.
- European
- 91
- Māori
- 6
- Pacific
- 3
- Asian
- 47
- MELAA
- 2
- 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 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 23 |
| Year 02 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 17 |
| Year 03 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 18 |
| Year 04 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 20 |
| Year 05 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 15 |
| Year 06 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 18 |
| Year 07 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 15 |
| Year 08 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 16 |
| Total | 7 | 2 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 98 | 0 | 142 |
| Māori | Pacific | Asian | MELAA | Other | European/ Pākehā | International students | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age 05 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 23 |
| Age 06 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 17 |
| Age 07 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 18 |
| Age 08 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 19 |
| Age 09 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 15 |
| Age 10 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 18 |
| Age 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 15 |
| Age 12 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| Age 13 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 7 | 2 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 98 | 0 | 142 |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0
Student engagement
Age-standardised stand-down rate per 1,000 students — 2024
13.3%
| St Mary's School (Mosgiel) | 13.3% |
|---|---|
| Otago Region | 36.8% |
| Full Primary | 35.6% |
| State : Integrated | 16.2% |
| New Zealand | 37.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 28.7% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| Other | 0% |
| European/Pākehā | 17.9% |
| Total | 13.3% |
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 Mary's School (Mosgiel) | 0% |
|---|---|
| Otago Region | 4.6% |
| 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 | 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%
| St Mary's School (Mosgiel) | 0% |
|---|---|
| Otago Region | 2% |
| 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 | 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)
- 408
- Boarding
- No
- Language of instruction
- All students taught in English/other setting
- Urban / rural
- Medium urban area
- Date opened
- 8 February 1892
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
- 4
- Last reviewed
- 29 June 2023
- Latest report
- Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
- Report type
- Profile report
- Board assurance
- The board attested to all areas (29 June 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 29 June 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 132 — 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.
July 2018
139
Counted while ERO’s review team was at the school. Education Review Office, report of 10 September 2018
November 2015
148
Counted while ERO’s review team was at the school. Education Review Office, report of 22 December 2015
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 29 June 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 two years of the Education Review Office and St Mary’s School (Mosgiel) 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 Mary’s School (Mosgiel) is located in Mosgiel, Otago. It is a Catholic integrated school for students in Years 1 to 8. The staff and community are guided by the school’s vision and values, in all that they do to provide a caring, inclusive environment for all. The school has a significant number of students who are English language learners.
St Mary’s School (Mosgiel)’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:
strive for greatness in their culture
enhance learner achievement
proactively manage change with adaptive approaches
enhance and streamline communication
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on St Mary’s School (Mosgiel)’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how St Mary’s Mosgiel School can deliver a consistent literacy program across the school that is appropriate for all learners; and to understand to what extent the changing literacy program is improving learning outcomes for all students.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:
St Mary’s has engaged the staff, the BOT members, and the parents/caregivers to identify key areas for focus/priorities
a range of quality professional learning and development opportunities exist through the COL/ Kahui Ako and our school based PLD
that St Mary’s will continue to explicitly teach literacy using a consistent school wide framework, for example the implementation of the new spelling programme
the school has noticed through their data analysis a plateauing of achievement over the last 2 years in writing achievement and the staff want to respond to ensure equity and excellence for all.
The school expects to see:
highly engaged students where developing student agency is helping learners achieve their personal best
teacher collaboration and moderation to ensure consistency of teaching and learning programmes and delivery across St Mary’s School
review and assessment of existing and new practices, impact analysis and ongoing monitoring of the improvement actions
consistent implementation of literacy programmes across the school.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support the delivery of a consistent literacy programme that improves outcomes for all learners:
a desire to embrace new and relevant pedagogical approaches by staff that is enhanced by a carefully managed professional development programme
timely, planned and consistent communications with whānau that strengthen learning relationships
an effective focus on teaching and learning that is supported by the school’s strategic goals
Staff, that through effective practises, provide an inclusive environment for all children.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
Identifying and utilising appropriate qualitative and quantitative measures to evaluate success against strategic priorities
reframing learnings from current programs and trialled literacy approaches to create a structured literacy approach tailored to the needs of learners
putting the revised New Zealand curriculum to the forefront of their localised 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
29 June 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 4 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).