Last updated November 2026
Spotswood Primary School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 177 South Road, New Plymouth. It opened in 1958 and had 222 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply. The school’s site describes a kapa haka group and a choir for Years 3 to 6 that perform at school and at local festivals, weekly music lessons, a school musical and wearable arts, along with house groups, Positive Behaviour for Learning and an Enviroschools programme with a recycling hub the community can use. Sports teams have included basketball, hockey, touch, rippa rugby, netball and miniball.
At a glance
- Principal
- Mark Fisher
- Address
- 177 South Road, New Plymouth
- Phone
- 06 751 1331
Home zone
No home zone: any student can apply to enrol. If more students apply than there are places, the school decides how places are offered.
Who goes here
Share of the 222 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 March 2025. ERO found inclusive practices that give students a strong sense of belonging, leaders who use evidence well and involve students, staff and whānau in planning, an engaging curriculum that increasingly reflects the local area, and te reo and tikanga Māori woven into everyday learning. Achievement for Māori learners has improved since 2022.
ERO also found that a majority of students achieve at or above expectations in reading, but slightly less than half meet expectations in writing and maths, and a majority attend regularly, short of the Government’s target.
The agreed next steps are to lift writing and maths results with a focus on boys and Māori learners, strengthen teaching through targeted professional learning, keep building te reo and mātauranga Māori into the curriculum, and keep working on attendance.
Read the ERO reports for Spotswood Primary School
Enrolling
The school has no home zone or enrolment scheme, so any student can apply. The school asks families to book a face-to-face enrolment interview through the office, ideally a term before their child starts, and the child’s teacher then arranges transition visits.
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 Spotswood
Spotswood Primary School is in Spotswood. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Spotswood guide →Questions parents ask
Is Spotswood Primary School zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
222 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?
507. 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, 22 Oct 2026 (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).