Last updated October 2026
Tamaoho School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 36 Taikaranga Street, Pukekohe. It opened in 2021 and had 352 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Pukekohe Central; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site lists kapa haka, Indian dance and Pasifika dance groups, an Enviro Club, and after-school STEAM, football and drumming sessions run with outside providers, along with paid guitar, ukulele, keyboard and singing lessons. Before and after school care is provided by SKIDS.
At a glance
- Principal
- Gina Harduar
- Address
- 36 Taikaranga Street, Pukekohe
- Phone
- 09-884 9350
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Pukekohe Central: 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 352 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 Evaluation Report from August 2024. ERO found outcomes in reading and maths are becoming more equitable and are improving for most learners, with a majority at the expected curriculum level in both and most making accelerated progress.
About half of learners were at the expected level in writing, where structured literacy teaching is starting to lift results, and there was disparity for Māori learners in reading and maths, with programmes in place to address it.
Students feel they belong and talk confidently about their learning, the school meets the national attendance target, and ERO pointed to leadership focused on improvement, a culture of trust, and a board that uses evidence to make decisions.
The agreed next steps are to keep a close watch on targets for learners at risk of not achieving and on parity for Māori learners in literacy and maths, to keep building teachers’ skills in writing, to use te reo and tikanga Māori more in everyday practice, and to give students a stronger voice in shaping the school’s culture.
Read the ERO reports for Tamaoho 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.
New entrants start in cohorts at set points each term after two preschool visits, and the school publishes the start dates and visit days on its enrolment page. The page also has welcome booklets in Chinese, Punjabi and Hindi.
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 Pukekohe Central
Tamaoho School is in Pukekohe Central. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Pukekohe Central guide →Questions parents ask
Is Tamaoho School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Pukekohe Central.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
352 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?
446. 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).