Last updated October 2026
Pukekohe North School is a state, co-educational full primary school for Years 1 to 8 at Princes Street, Pukekohe. It opened in 1956 and had 371 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Paerata and Pukekohe Central; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school teaches through an English pathway (Kura Auraki) and a te reo Māori pathway (Kura Rumaki), following both the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa. Its website lists performing and visual arts, kapa haka, whole-school waiata each week, Franklin Bulls basketball, a library, a hall and astro-turf courts.
At a glance
- Principal
- Deborah Gosnall
- Address
- Princes Street, Pukekohe
- Phone
- 09 238 8552
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Paerata and 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 371 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 May 2024. ERO and the school agreed to look at how well achievement data is used to shape teaching and lift engagement, progress and achievement.
ERO pointed to a positive school climate with students keen to learn, and to partnerships with whānau and the community. In the rumaki and bilingual setting, ERO found tamariki confidently engaged in a curriculum grounded in te ao Māori, making accelerated progress in literacy and numeracy, and supported by a strong base of tikanga and mātauranga Māori.
The school’s priorities are for leaders to coordinate new systems for tracking achievement, for staff to learn how to collect and analyse that data, and for teachers to track target students in reading, writing and maths.
For the rumaki, ERO’s priorities are working with mana whenua to lead a local curriculum, building senior leaders’ understanding of rumaki assessment, building trust between senior leaders and rumaki leaders, and strengthening Māori-medium pathways.
Read the ERO reports for Pukekohe North School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol in the English pathway. The school’s enrolment page says families do not need to live in the zone to enrol in the te reo Māori pathway, and it lists the documents to bring to the school office for each pathway.
For the English pathway, out-of-zone places are offered under the enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
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
Pukekohe North 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 Pukekohe North School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Paerata and Pukekohe Central.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 8.
How many students go there?
371 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?
558. 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).