Last updated November 2026
Oropi School is a state, co-educational full primary school for Years 1 to 8 at Oropi Road, Oropi, Tauranga. It had 306 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Ohauiti, and parts of Oropi; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site describes play-based learning across all year levels, a Year 7 and 8 programme, Garden to Table, and language learning in te reo Māori, Mandarin and Spanish. After school care can be arranged through an outside provider, and the school takes international students.
At a glance
- Principal
- Andrew King
- Address
- Oropi Road, Oropi, Tauranga
- Phone
- 07 543 1479
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Ohauiti.
Parts of Oropi near Tauranga: 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 306 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 May 2025. ERO found that success and progress are increasing for all learners, teaching is of high quality, and a large majority of learners are at or above curriculum expectations in reading, writing and maths, with results becoming more equitable across groups.
Students feel well and take pride in their school, the curriculum is integrated and responds to their interests, and structured literacy is in place with structured maths being introduced. ERO also reported that international students have a wide range of learning opportunities and effective pastoral care.
Attendance is behind the government target of 80 percent regular attendance, though the school has a suitable plan and attendance is improving. ERO found the school’s assessment practices and its planning to speed up progress were still developing, and that achievement for learners most at risk had improved only to some extent since the previous review.
The agreed next steps are to bring teaching and assessment into line with the new structured literacy and maths requirements, strengthen te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and mātauranga Māori across the school, and monitor efforts to lift regular attendance.
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, and the school publishes its out-of-zone application deadlines and ballot dates on its enrolment page. Families can enrol online and are welcome to arrange a look around the school first.
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 Oropi near Tauranga
Oropi School is in Oropi near Tauranga. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
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Questions parents ask
Is Oropi School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Ohauiti and parts of Oropi near Tauranga.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 8.
How many students go there?
306 at 1 Oct 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?
434. 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, 11 Nov 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).