Last updated October 2026
Sandspit Road School is a state, co-educational full primary school for Years 1 to 8 at Sandspit Road, Waiuku. It opened in 1969 and had 270 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Waiuku; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site lists kapa haka and Pasifika groups, a school choir that joins the Franklin and Kids for Kids combined choirs, and sport mostly from Year 4 up, including swimming, cricket, touch, rippa rugby, netball, football, athletics, cross country, orienteering and basketball.
Year 7 and 8 students go by bus to View Road School every second week for specialist technology classes in hard materials, visual art, and foods and fabric, and the school also runs the Travelwise and Trees for Survival programmes.
At a glance
- Principal
- Denise Horley
- Address
- Sandspit Road, Waiuku
- Phone
- 09 235 9922
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Waiuku: 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 270 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 Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from March 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well targeted actions lift achievement for all students, with writing as the main focus.
ERO pointed to united leadership and governance focused on steady improvement, professional learning planned around what students and teachers need, and a collaborative staff culture that is open to change.
Next, the school plans to build a culture across the school where students make real choices and decisions about their own learning, and to keep strengthening how it evaluates its work so that students progress faster and outcomes become fairer for every group.
Read the ERO reports for Sandspit Road School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, using the online enrolment form linked from the school’s enrolment page. 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, how to apply and the ballot date by notice in a local newspaper each year.
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 Waiuku
Sandspit Road School is in Waiuku. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Waiuku guide →Questions parents ask
Is Sandspit Road School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Waiuku.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 8.
How many students go there?
270 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?
459. 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, 26 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).