Last updated October 2026
Valley School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at East Street, Pukekohe. It opened in 1966 and had 490 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 describes a house system for sport and other competitions, with Year 6 house captains, a bring-your-own-device programme for Year 6 students, and before and after school care and holiday programmes run by Kelly Club for Valley School families.
At a glance
- Principal
- Roger Goulstone
- Address
- East Street, Pukekohe
- Phone
- 09 238 8774
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 490 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 December 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well targeted actions lift literacy results and make them fairer for the students who need it most.
ERO noted that the school hosts a satellite unit of Parkside Special School on site, and pointed to an inclusive, caring environment where students feel they belong and are engaged, staff chosen for a mix of skills who build a collaborative culture, and shared leadership that is modelling deeper reflection on practice.
Next, the school plans to refine the processes that lift achievement and equity, make stronger use of assessment information to show how fast students are progressing and to target teaching, and keep building learning partnerships with parents and whānau along with its skill in evaluating its own work.
Read the ERO reports for Valley School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, and the school’s zone information page links to a detailed zone map. 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 the start and midpoint of each term, after pre-start visits, and the school publishes the cohort start and visit dates on its website 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 Pukekohe Central
Valley 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 Valley 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?
490 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
It may. It is not in the donation scheme, so it can ask families for donations.
What is its Equity Index?
426. 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).