Last updated November 2026
Te Whai Hiringa is a state, co-educational full primary school for Years 1 to 8 at Peterhead Avenue, Flaxmere, Hastings. It opened in 1973 and had 431 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Flaxmere; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site describes specialist teachers in te reo Māori, tikanga and taiaha, kapa haka, and music, Māori visual arts, whakairo and mau rākau for intermediate students through a technology partnership with Flaxmere College.
Sport includes rugby, netball, basketball, ki o rahi, volleyball, swimming, triathlon and Bikes in Schools, along with chess, robotics, photography, 3D printing and guitar and drum lessons.
At a glance
- Principal
- Tineka Tuala-Fata
- Address
- Peterhead Avenue, Flaxmere, Hastings
- Phone
- 06 879 8570
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Flaxmere: 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 431 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
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 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well culturally sustaining teaching lifts progress and achievement fairly for all students.
The school’s priorities include a framework for play grounded in Kahungunutanga and a local curriculum built on the Ngāti Kahungunu education strategy. ERO noted strengths in leadership that plans for steady improvement, close partnerships with mana whenua, iwi, whānau and the Pacific community, and an inclusive climate that supports students in their language, culture and identity.
From here the school plans to strengthen the ways it gives effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, build more consistent teaching practice, keep refining its local curriculum, and look critically at a range of assessment information to guide teaching and help students take charge of their learning.
Read the ERO reports for Te Whai Hiringa
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
The school uses cohort entry for new entrants: children who are already five start at the beginning of a term, and children who turn five during a term start partway through it.
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 Flaxmere
Te Whai Hiringa is in Flaxmere. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Flaxmere guide →Questions parents ask
Is Te Whai Hiringa zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Flaxmere.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 8.
How many students go there?
431 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?
533. 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).