Last updated October 2026
Mayfair School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 1110 Willowpark Road North, Mayfair, Hastings. It opened in 1950 and had 220 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Mayfair, Waipatu, Hastings City Centre, Karamū and Parkvale; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site names kaupapa Māori as one of its four cornerstones, offers kapa haka from Year 3, and runs FIRST LEGO robotics programmes that every student takes part in as they move through the school, along with celebrations for Matariki, Samoan Language Week and Diwali. There is a breakfast club each morning, and a separately run OSCAR before and after school care and holiday programme operates in the school hall.
At a glance
- Principal
- Ricardo Fox
- Address
- 1110 Willowpark Road North, Mayfair, Hastings
- Phone
- 06 878 5518
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Mayfair Hastings, Waipatu, Hastings City Centre, Karamū and Parkvale: 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 220 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 School Report from October 2025. ERO found good quality teaching that is lifting progress in reading, writing and mathematics, a broad curriculum with a steady focus on literacy and maths, good support for learners with complex needs, and well established planning for improvement.
A large majority of learners meet or exceed the expected curriculum level in writing and mathematics and a small majority in reading, but results are not yet equitable across groups of learners.
Less than half of learners attend school regularly, so the school is behind the national 80% target, although ERO judged its attendance plan suitable and found attendance improving. ERO also noted warm relationships, collaborative leadership and useful, accurate reporting to whānau, while judging that work to lift students’ engagement, wellbeing and inclusion is still under way.
ERO’s priorities are for the school to raise regular attendance, bring in structured mathematics and settle its literacy approaches across the school, use targeted and culturally informed teaching so progress is fairer for every group, and build staff capability through a planned programme of professional learning.
During the review ERO also found gaps in staff police vetting, teacher practising certificates and records of safety checks on new appointments; the board has since addressed these.
Read the ERO reports for Mayfair 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’s zone page describes the zone boundaries street by street.
To enrol, families come into the school office during school hours to fill in an enrolment form and pack, or download the forms from the enrolment page. Families can ask for a school tour, and new entrants have transition visits to their new class 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 Mayfair Hastings
Mayfair School is in Mayfair Hastings. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Mayfair Hastings guide →Questions parents ask
Is Mayfair School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Mayfair Hastings, Waipatu, Hastings City Centre, Karamū and Parkvale.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
220 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?
527. 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).