Last updated October 2026
Flaxmere Primary School is a state, co-educational full primary school for Years 1 to 8 at 20 Henderson Road, Flaxmere, Hastings. It opened in 1970 and had 421 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Woolwich and Flaxmere; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site describes four learning pathways that families choose between: Rumaki (Māori immersion), Reorua (Māori bilingual), Auraki (English medium) and Vasega ole Gagana Sāmoa (Sāmoan). It also lists no school fees, no compulsory uniform, free stationery, morning tea and lunch provided, devices for learning, and free camps and trips with no sports or technology fees.
At a glance
- Principal
- Robyn Isaacson
- Address
- 20 Henderson Road, Flaxmere, Hastings
- Phone
- 06 879 8210
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Woolwich and 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 421 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.
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 School Report from March 2026. ERO found good quality teaching backed by careful use of assessment data to target teaching, structured literacy and maths helping students think more deeply, students with complex needs well supported, and a strong pastoral and Positive Behaviour for Learning focus.
In the rumaki and reo rua classes, ERO noted strong te reo Māori teaching grounded in local Māori stories, and leadership that is culturally fluent and values whānau voices.
A small majority of students meet the expected curriculum level in reading, writing and maths, with writing results not yet equitable, while in the Māori-medium classes less than half meet the expected level in pānui and less than a third in tuhituhi.
Less than a third of students attend regularly, well behind the government’s 80% target, although attendance is improving under the school’s plan.
ERO’s priorities are for the school to make teaching approaches more consistent, build more kaupapa-based, culturally rich learning into the curriculum, sharpen its Māori-medium targets with training for staff in Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, the Māori-medium curriculum, strengthen partnerships with whānau, formalise its evaluation planning and raise attendance.
ERO also found two areas of non-compliance, about checking that teaching staff are registered or hold a limited authority to teach and following every step of the child protection policy, and said the board must make sure students are safe both physically and emotionally. The board has acted on the non-compliance.
Read the ERO reports for Flaxmere Primary 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, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
The school invites whānau to meet the principal with their child and collect an enrolment pack from the office. A birth certificate is needed, along with immunisation information if the family has 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
Flaxmere Primary School 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 Flaxmere Primary School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Woolwich and Flaxmere.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 8.
How many students go there?
421 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?
539. 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).