Last updated October 2026
Fitzroy School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at Barriball Street, Fitzroy, New Plymouth. It opened in 1882 and had 443 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Glen Avon, Waiwhakaiho and Fitzroy, and parts of Strandon and Hillsborough; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site describes a place-based curriculum that uses the local surroundings, swimming lessons in the school pool, the Life Education bus, and specialist instructors for kapa haka, turf hockey and golf.
Sport includes interschool exchanges for Years 5 and 6, skateboarding, surfing for Year 6 and school teams in basketball, cricket, hockey, netball and touch, and Edventure runs before and after school care and holiday programmes in the school hall.
At a glance
- Principal
- Dee Luckin
- Address
- Barriball Street, Fitzroy, New Plymouth
- Phone
- 06 758 3084
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Fitzroy, Glen Avon New Plymouth and Waiwhakaiho New Plymouth.
Parts of Strandon New Plymouth and Hillsborough: 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 443 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.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a School Report from September 2025. ERO found that success and progress are rising and that high quality teaching is improving results, with most students meeting or exceeding the expected level in reading and maths and a large majority in writing, and results are equitable across groups of students.
A large majority attend regularly and the school is approaching the government target, with a suitable plan to improve. ERO noted a strong sense of belonging, rich learning linked to the local area, good support for students with complex needs, well established planning for improvement, and reporting to parents that is getting better. It also found the school had so far only partly lifted progress for students most at risk of not achieving.
The key priorities are to build teachers’ confidence in using achievement information to guide teaching, to bring teaching into line with the updated curriculum and assessment rules through consistent, structured approaches across the school, to refine schoolwide systems so practice stays consistent, and to keep improving regular attendance.
Read the ERO reports for Fitzroy School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, and the school’s site says children from outside the zone are usually not eligible. Any out-of-zone places are offered under the enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
Families start by phoning the office to put their child on the pre-enrolment list, ideally about a year before they turn five, and can meet the principal and tour the school. A transition programme, Future Fitzys, runs for several weeks before a child’s first day.
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 Fitzroy
Fitzroy School is in Fitzroy. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Fitzroy guide →Questions parents ask
Is Fitzroy School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Fitzroy, Glen Avon New Plymouth and Waiwhakaiho New Plymouth and parts of Strandon New Plymouth and Hillsborough.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
443 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?
422. 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). 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).