Westminster Christian School
Full Primary · State : Integrated
- Year levels
- 1–8
- Total roll
- 364
- Enrolment zone
- No
- Gender
- Co-Educational
Where is it, and how do I get in touch?
- Address
- 31 Westminster Gardens, Glenfield, Auckland
- Territorial authority
- Upper Harbour Local Board Area
- Phone
- 09-4441983
- admin@westminster.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.
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
Girls – Winter • Navy long-sleeved school polo shirt • School tartan skort • Red school polar fleece • Navy tights or long navy school socks with red line and black polishable shoes • School rainproof jacket (optional)
- Required
- Where to buy the uniform
- Term dates
- Term 1, 2026: Tuesday 3 February – Thursday 2 April
Term 1: Tuesday 3 February – Thursday 2 April
Year stated as2026 Dates
- Term 2, 2026: Monday 20 April – Friday 3 July
Term 2: Monday 20 April – Friday 3 July
Year stated as2026 Dates
- Term 3, 2026: Tuesday 21 July – Friday 25 September
Term 3: Tuesday 21 July – Friday 25 September
Year stated as2026 Dates
- Term 4, 2026: Monday 12 October – Thursday 17 December
Term 4: Monday 12 October – Thursday 17 December
Year stated as2026 Dates
- Term 1, 2026: Tuesday 3 February – Thursday 2 April
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
International students are integrated into regular classes across Years 1 to 8 and where appropriate receive extra support in particular subjects.
- Accepted, as stated
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
- school wide production
every second year we have a school wide production
- choir
The choir performs yearly in an Auckland wide school competition.
- school wide production
Who goes here?
Ethnicity breakdown of the total roll, shown as context. Not ranked, and not compared against any average.
- European
- 83
- Māori
- 2
- Pacific
- 3
- Asian
- 270
- MELAA
- 36
- Other
- 0
- International
- 2
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 | 0 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 44 |
| Year 02 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 53 |
| Year 03 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 50 |
| Year 04 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 52 |
| Year 05 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 43 |
| Year 06 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 42 |
| Year 07 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 55 |
| Year 08 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 36 |
| Total | 1 | 5 | 276 | 41 | 1 | 77 | 1 | 375 |
| Māori | Pacific | Asian | MELAA | Other | European/ Pākehā | International students | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age 05 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 39 |
| Age 06 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 50 |
| Age 07 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 53 |
| Age 08 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 55 |
| Age 09 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 44 |
| Age 10 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 39 |
| Age 11 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 52 |
| Age 12 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 33 |
| Age 13 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Total | 1 | 5 | 276 | 41 | 1 | 77 | 1 | 375 |
Source: Education Counts, Ministry of Education, CC BY 4.0
Student engagement
Age-standardised stand-down rate per 1,000 students — 2024
0%
| Westminster Christian School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 29.7% |
| Full Primary | 35.6% |
| State : Integrated | 16.2% |
| New Zealand | 37.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| Pacific | 0% |
| Asian | 0% |
| 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%
| Westminster Christian School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 3% |
| Full Primary | 3.9% |
| State : Integrated | 1.6% |
| New Zealand | 4.1% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| 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%
| Westminster Christian School | 0% |
|---|---|
| Auckland Region | 1.4% |
| Full Primary | 1.7% |
| State : Integrated | 0.5% |
| New Zealand | 1.8% |
Trend and demographic breakdown
| Female | 0% |
|---|---|
| Male | 0% |
| Māori | Not available (source marker: "nd") |
| 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)
- 344
- Boarding
- No
- Language of instruction
- All students taught in English/other setting
- Urban / rural
- Major urban area
- Date opened
- 8 December 1994
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
- 16 January 2023
- Latest report
- Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report
- Report type
- Profile report
- Board assurance
- The board attested to all areas (16 January 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 16 January 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 364 — 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.
May 2017
275
Counted while ERO’s review team was at the school. Education Review Office, report of 30 June 2017
November 2013
228
Counted while ERO’s review team was at the school. Education Review Office, report of 20 February 2014
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 16 January 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 twelve months of the Education Review Office and Westminster Christian 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
Westminster Christian School is a State-Integrated School, located in Unsworth Heights, North Shore, Auckland. It provides education for students in years 1 to 8.
Westminster Christian School aims to provide education, through the Spirit of God, for the children of Christian parents for time and eternity by providing a Christ-centred academic curriculum founded on a Biblical Worldview. The school’s values of Whakaute /Respect, Haepapa /Responsibility , Whakaaroaro /Resilience underpin the practices and behaviours of learners and staff and sit alongside the Christian special character of the school.
In 2020, a new Principal was appointed.
Westminster Christian School’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are:
Assessment for Learning.
Connections through school values.
Development of the Physical Education Curriculum through student agency.
Staff support English for Speakers of Other languages (ESOL) students by implementing the ESOL principles into their daily practice across all curriculum areas.
You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Westminster Christian School’s website.
ERO and the school are working together to evaluate how effectively the English Language Learning Framework (ELL), supports ESOL students to meet their learning needs.
The rationale for selecting this evaluation is:
50% of all learners at the school are ESOL
staff are looking at how to support ESOL and use ELL in innovative ways
building staff pedagogies in ELL across the school, align with the school’s strategic plan priority goals.
The school expects to see the principles specific to the ELL teaching pedagogies consistently implemented to support ESOL students to progress and achieve equitable and excellent outcomes in all curriculum areas.
Strengths
The school can draw from the following strengths to support it in its goal to evaluate how effectively the ELL supports ESOL students to meet their learning needs:
students demonstrate agency in their learning to improve their achievement outcomes in literacy
teachers focus on a collaborative approach to implement the principles specific to the ELL pedagogies
leadership which is focused on evaluation for equity and excellence for all ESOL students
communication with the community to enhance learning outcomes occurring through a localised curriculum.
Where to next?
Moving forward, the school will prioritise:
inclusive and collaborative teaching and learning approaches for students between the ESOL department and the classroom teachers
continuing to adapt teaching and learning practices to meet all learner needs.
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.
Filivaifale Jason Swann Director Review and Improvement Services (Northern) Northern Region | Te Tai Raki
16 January 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).