Last updated October 2026
Fairhaven School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 120 Boucher Avenue, Te Puke. It opened in 1957 and had 500 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Te Ranga and Te Puke; the zone map below shows the full boundary. Alongside its English-medium classes, the school runs Toitoi Manawa, a full Māori immersion unit, and its site says it takes international students, who join mainstream classes and get small-group English lessons.
Kapa haka, an Indian dance group and a Pasifika dance group sit alongside music and singing lessons, and sport ranges from netball, rugby, hockey and squash to surfing, gymnastics and cheerleading.
At a glance
- Principal
- Paul Hunt
- Address
- 120 Boucher Avenue, Te Puke
- Phone
- 07 573 8243
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Te Ranga near Tauranga and Te Puke 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 500 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 September 2025. ERO judged that the school is still working towards strong success and progress for all learners, and that its teaching is improving.
A large majority of students meet the expected curriculum level in reading and maths and a small majority in writing, with reading and maths results not yet equitable across groups.
In the Toitoi Manawa immersion classes, less than a third of learners meet expectations in pānui and tuhituhi and a small majority in pāngarau. Only a small majority of students attend regularly, the school is behind the government’s attendance target and chronic absence is not yet falling.
On the positive side, ERO pointed to an effective behaviour framework, well-resourced support for neurodiverse students and those with extra learning needs, school values that are well embedded, whānau treated as partners, and a learning environment that celebrates te reo and tikanga Māori.
The priorities ERO and the school agreed are sharper strategic goals, better assessment tools and closer use of achievement data to track progress, more consistent high quality teaching, stronger foundation skills in te reo matatini and pāngarau in the immersion unit, and better regular attendance, with leaders and the board reviewing results each year.
Read the ERO reports for Fairhaven 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, which is set out on its Information page: the board decides how many places are available each year and advertises how to apply in a local newspaper, and places are decided by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
Students joining Toitoi Manawa get first priority under the scheme, with preference for whānau who are committed to its kaupapa and have te reo Māori at home or come from immersion education.
The school recommends a series of transition visits before a child starts, through its weekly programme for four-year-olds.
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 Te Puke near Tauranga
Fairhaven School is in Te Puke near Tauranga. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Te Puke near Tauranga guide →Questions parents ask
Is Fairhaven School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Te Ranga near Tauranga and Te Puke near Tauranga.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
500 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?
454. 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, 22 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).