Last updated October 2026
Mahora School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 710 Frederick Street, Mahora, Hastings. It opened in 1903 and had 374 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Mahora, and parts of Tōmoana, Hastings City Centre, Mayfair, St Leonards and Waipatu; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes a kapa haka group open to all tamariki that learns Ngāti Kahungunu knowledge through mōteatea, waiata and haka, a Pasifika group with tutors in song and dance, and a place-based local curriculum. Every child gets a free lunch each school day through the school lunch programme.
At a glance
- Principal
- Greg English
- Address
- 710 Frederick Street, Mahora, Hastings
- Phone
- 06 878 2622
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Mahora.
Parts of Tōmoana, Hastings City Centre, Mayfair Hastings, St Leonards and Waipatu: 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 374 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 August 2025. ERO found success and progress are rising for all students, with a large majority at or above the expected level in reading and writing and most in maths; maths results are equitable, and reading and writing results are becoming more so.
Teaching is of high quality, students feel they belong and are proud of their school, the curriculum links learning to local places and iwi, and a structured approach to literacy is being embedded.
Attendance is a concern: only a small majority of students attend regularly, the school is behind the government’s 80 percent target, and ERO judged that regular attendance was not yet improving towards it.
The priorities are to lift regular attendance, define the school’s approach to teaching and learning in line with the new curriculum and assessment requirements, embed structured maths across the school, make more use of achievement data in reading, writing and maths, and build learning partnerships with all whānau.
Read the ERO reports for Mahora School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, and the school asks families to check the zone before filling in its enrolment form.
Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places. The scheme says the board announces the number of out-of-zone places, and how to apply, on the school’s Facebook page.
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 Mahora
Mahora School is in Mahora. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Mahora guide →Questions parents ask
Is Mahora School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Mahora and parts of Tōmoana, Hastings City Centre, Mayfair Hastings, St Leonards and Waipatu.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
374 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?
470. 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).