Last updated October 2026
Tuakau School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 6 School Road, Tuakau. It opened in 1870 and had 259 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Tuakau; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s information booklet describes its Whare Manaaki bilingual classes, taught in English and te reo Māori from new entrants to Year 6, where whānau commit to termly whānau meetings and to supporting their child’s te reo, with priority for children coming through a Māori learning pathway. It also lists a breakfast club, swimming lessons in the school pool during the season, and sport against other schools in the River Zone Sports Group.
At a glance
- Principal
- Vanessa Hira
- Address
- 6 School Road, Tuakau
- Phone
- 09 236 8105
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Tuakau near Pukekohe: 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 259 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 February 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well the school uses data to shape teaching and speed up students’ progress.
ERO pointed to well-established systems that support a collaborative culture, leadership whose decisions reflect whanaungatanga, tiakitanga and manaakitanga, valued partnerships with whānau, iwi and hapū, and a board that represents its community in setting the school’s direction.
Next, the school plans to refine how it uses data to plan and improve teaching programmes, and to lift teachers’ practice through relevant professional learning and its professional growth cycle.
Read the ERO reports for Tuakau 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, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
The scheme gives first priority to applicants for the school’s approved bilingual and learning support programmes, and says the board announces out-of-zone places, how to apply and any ballot date by notice in a local newspaper each year.
New entrants start in cohorts at the start of a term or partway through it, and need a birth certificate or passport and proof of address before they begin.
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 Tuakau near Pukekohe
Tuakau School is in Tuakau near Pukekohe. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Tuakau near Pukekohe guide →Questions parents ask
Is Tuakau School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Tuakau near Pukekohe.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
259 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?
516. 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).