Last updated October 2026
Frimley School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 200 Frimley Road, Frimley, Hastings. It opened in 1952 and had 472 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of St Leonards, Frimley, Mahora and Camberley; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes an emphasis on literacy and maths within an inquiry-based, place-based curriculum, play-based learning for new entrants, coding and robotics for all students, and one device per student in Years 5 and 6. It lists a full-time learning support coordinator, a practice nurse on site each day and a school social worker, along with kapa haka, a Pasifika group, Diwali and Matariki celebrations, and inter-school sport and cultural events.
At a glance
- Principal
- Rohan Pearse
- Address
- 200 Frimley Road, Frimley, Hastings
- Phone
- 06 878 8757
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: St Leonards, Frimley, Mahora and Camberley: 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 472 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 School Report from October 2025. ERO found high quality teaching and well-established planning, with most students meeting or exceeding the expected curriculum level in reading, a large majority in writing and almost all in maths, and results equitable across groups.
Structured literacy is in place across the school, maths achievement has risen markedly, and writing has improved for Pacific students. ERO also noted an inclusive approach that helps students with additional needs succeed, learning that values students’ language, culture and identity, strong partnerships with whānau, hapū, iwi and the wider multicultural community, and well-embedded internal evaluation.
ERO’s priorities are for the school to lift and sustain regular attendance, which only a small majority of students currently reach although it is improving, continue professional learning in structured maths, bring in assessments that match the updated literacy and maths curriculum, and keep families informed about curriculum changes and how progress is reported.
ERO also found one area of non-compliance, about current police vetting for all staff, which the board has since addressed.
Read the ERO reports for Frimley 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, with the board deciding each year how many places are available, and by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
The school asks families to register a child with the office around their fourth birthday and suggests enrolling six months to a year before a child turns 5. Families complete the enrolment form and provide a birth certificate or passport, proof of address and, where needed, a visa, and new entrants are invited to classroom visits before they start.
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 Frimley
Frimley School is in Frimley. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Frimley guide →Questions parents ask
Is Frimley School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of St Leonards, Frimley, Mahora and Camberley.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
472 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?
473. 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).