Tauranga Waldorf School
Full Primary · State : Integrated
- Year levels
- 1–8
- Total roll
- 203
- Enrolment zone
- No
- Gender
- Co-Educational
Where is it, and how do I get in touch?
- Address
- 364 Welcome Bay Road, Welcome Bay, Tauranga
- Territorial authority
- Tauranga City
- Phone
- 07-5442452
- reception@waldorftga.nz
- Directions
- Get directions
Other schools nearby: schools in Tauranga · schools in Bay of Plenty
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.
- International students
- Accepted, as stated
We welcome international students to our school and encourage anyone interested in enrolling from overseas
- Accepted, as stated
Who goes here?
Ethnicity breakdown of the total roll, shown as context. Not ranked, and not compared against any average.
- European
- 182
- Māori
- 22
- Pacific
- 0
- Asian
- 5
- MELAA
- 7
- Other
- 3
- International
- 3
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 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 30 |
| Year 02 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 30 |
| Year 03 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 28 |
| Year 04 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 24 |
| Year 05 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 24 |
| Year 06 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 19 |
| Year 07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 25 |
| Year 08 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 24 |
| Total | 29 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 176 | 1 | 204 |
| Māori | Pacific | Asian | MELAA | Other | European/ Pākehā | International students | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age 05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Age 06 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 30 |
| Age 07 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 29 |
| Age 08 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 24 |
| Age 09 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 27 |
| Age 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 26 |
| Age 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 25 |
| Age 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 25 |
| Age 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 12 |
| Age 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 29 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 176 | 1 | 204 |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0
Student engagement
Age-standardised stand-down rate per 1,000 students — 2024
6.4%
| Tauranga Waldorf School | 6.4% |
|---|---|
| Bay of Plenty Region | 37.4% |
| Full Primary | 35.6% |
| State : Integrated | 16.2% |
| New Zealand | 37.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 14.5% |
| Māori | 0% |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| Other | 0% |
| European/Pākehā | 7.1% |
| Total | 6.4% |
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%
| Tauranga Waldorf School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Bay of Plenty Region | 3.8% |
| 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%
| New Zealand | 1.8% |
|---|---|
| Tauranga Waldorf School | 0% |
| Bay of Plenty Region | 1.4% |
| Full Primary | 1.7% |
| State : Integrated | 0.5% |
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)
- 413
- Boarding
- No
- Language of instruction
- All students taught in English/other setting
- Urban / rural
- Major urban area
- Date opened
- 25 January 1988
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
- 8 March 2023
- Latest report
- Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
- Report type
- Profile report
- Board assurance
- The board attested to all areas (8 March 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 8 March 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 203 — 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 2015
182
Counted while ERO’s review team was at the school. Education Review Office, report of 12 August 2015
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 8 March 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 20 months of the Education Review Office and Tauranga Waldorf 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
Tauranga Waldorf School is a state integrated primary school located in Welcome Bay, Tauranga . It caters for students from class 1 (Year 2) to class 7 (Year 8). The school is set on 16 acres of rural land that includes wetlands, native bush, community gardens and an organic farm. The New Zealand Waldorf curriculum is localised and underpinned by a pedagogy of ‘participation and contribution through discovery’.
Tauranga Waldorf School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to deliver the ‘right thing at the right time for every child’ by:
providing a curriculum reflective of bicultural kaupapa that honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi
maintaining high expectations for learning and achievement for all learners
providing individualised programmes to provide accelerant learning for those children who need it
promoting wellbeing, inclusivity and respect within an holistic culture of learning.
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Tauranga Waldorf School’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the school sustains excellence and equity for all children by providing ‘the right thing at the right time for every child’.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is to support the school to sustain high levels of systematic collaborative inquiry and internal monitoring and evaluation practices that promote ongoing school improvement.
The school expects to see:
sustained curriculum implementation that results in high levels of student achievement at Year 8
a responsive curriculum that provides multiple opportunities for the individual needs of children to be met through discovery learning
accelerant learning for children who need it that is highly individualised and informed by a range of evaluative processes.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support the achievement of its goals:
collective capacity that effectively focuses on the ongoing needs and aspirations of the community
a coherent and deliberate curriculum that ensures inclusivity, wellbeing and a range of rich learning opportunities inclusive of ‘learning through the arts and on the land
highly effective teaching that centres on meeting the holistic needs of all children, informed by a range of internal evaluation systems.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
continuing to work toward an authentic bicultural curriculum reflective of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
further growth of the school’s experiential ‘learning on the land’ curriculum
meeting every child where they are and drawing them forward using effective internal evaluation practices.
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.
Phil Cowie Director Review and Improvement Services (Central) Central Region | Te Tai Pūtahi Nui
8 March 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).