Last updated October 2026
Clive School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 57 School Road, Clive. It opened in 1879 and had 224 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Whakatu, Clive, Mangateretere and Haumoana; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site describes play-based ’Exploring Time’ for its youngest students, collaborative senior classes where each child has a school iPad, and regular te reo Māori lessons through waiata, kanikani and visual art. It lists kapa haka, an auditioned choir, ukulele lessons, optional paid guitar and speech and drama lessons, and a seasonal programme of sport and cluster events, and points families to Lulu and Max, an outside provider, for before and after school care.
At a glance
- Principal
- Chris Birch
- Address
- 57 School Road, Clive
- Phone
- 06 870 0538
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Whakatu, Clive, Mangateretere and Haumoana: 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 224 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.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from May 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well literacy teaching is lifting results for every student, particularly Māori students and boys.
ERO pointed to ongoing work to grow teachers’ skills and shared capacity, school priorities that line up with the local Kāhui Ako and teachers’ inquiries into their own practice, and a positive, inclusive culture focused on fair and strong outcomes.
Next, the school plans to keep building culturally responsive literacy teaching, put in place a local curriculum that reflects students’ culture, language and identity, including te ao Māori, te reo Māori and mātauranga Māori, and strengthen learning-focused relationships with whānau to support literacy.
Read the ERO reports for Clive School
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 in a set application window, with the board deciding the number of places, and by ballot when there are more applicants than places. Out-of-zone families apply using the form on the enrolment page.
For new entrants, the school suggests enrolling before a child turns 5: families collect an enrolment pack, meet the principal and can join a series of weekly school visits before starting. The school publishes its out-of-zone places and ballot dates on its enrolment page each year.
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 Clive
Clive School is in Clive. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Clive guide →Questions parents ask
Is Clive School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Whakatu, Clive, Mangateretere and Haumoana.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
224 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?
450. 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.
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). Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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