Last updated October 2026
Parkvale School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 1217 Howard Street, Hastings. It opened in 1919 and had 516 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Parkvale, Ākina, Hastings City Centre, Havelock North and Longlands; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site describes values built around PRIDE, a move towards modern learning environments, a library, a bike track and a school pool used for swimming in Terms 1 and 4.
Students can take part in cross country, athletics and swimming sports, and represent the school in local competitions including hockey, miniball, cricket, netball, canoe polo, flippa ball, orienteering and rippa rugby.
At a glance
- Principal
- Aaron O'Neill
- Address
- 1217 Howard Street, Hastings
- Phone
- 06 878 6616
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Parkvale, Ākina, Hastings City Centre, Havelock North Hastings and Longlands: check your street.
Zone boundaries are set by the school’s enrolment scheme and can change. Confirm your address with the school before you rely on it.
Who goes here
Share of the 516 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
3 international students
MELAA: Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
Stand-downs and suspensions
Cases per 1,000 students in 2025, adjusted for the ages of the school’s students, compared with all New Zealand schools.
Suspensions: fewer than 5 cases in 2025, so no rate is shown.
These measure how a school responds to behaviour, and schools set their own thresholds, so they are not a measure of how students behave.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from December 2022. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how far a coaching and mentoring programme for teachers has changed teaching practice and improved outcomes for the learners it targets.
ERO pointed to leaders who understand their roles and make good use of analysed information about teaching and learning, resourcing decisions that line up with school priorities, and well-built systems for assessment and for tracking and reporting progress.
Next, the school plans to give teachers regular, structured feedback through impact coaching, reorganise its coaching groups around what particular teachers and learners need, and keep setting aside resources for teacher release time.
Read the ERO reports for Parkvale School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, and proof of residence in the zone is needed. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
All enrolments are made online through the link on the school’s enrolment and zoning page, which also has an information booklet, a street-by-street description of the zone and a zone map to download. Families can also email the school or pick up an information pack from the office.
Schools nearby
Where students go next
Based on home zones around the school’s own address. Families can apply to any school, and your own address decides which zones you are in.
In Parkvale
Parkvale School is in Parkvale. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Parkvale guide →Questions parents ask
Is Parkvale School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Parkvale, Ākina, Hastings City Centre, Havelock North Hastings and Longlands.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
516 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
No. It is in the donation scheme, so it only asks for donations for school camps.
What is its Equity Index?
462. The Ministry of Education’s Equity Index estimates the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, from 344 (fewest) to 569 (most). It is used to share out funding, not as a measure of quality.
Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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Sources and data notes 1
- School facts: School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 23 Oct 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Home zone: Ministry of Education enrolment zones (CC BY 4.0). NCEA results, roll history and stand-downs: Education Counts, school leavers 2023 to 2025, stand-downs 2025, rolls 2021 to 2025 (CC BY 4.0).