Last updated October 2026
Peachgrove Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at 72 Peachgrove Road, Hamilton East, Hamilton. It opened in 1957 and had 532 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Fairview Downs, Ruakura and Silverdale, and parts of Hillcrest, Claudelands, Hamilton East, Enderley, Puketaha, Chartwell and Newstead; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site lists three special character classes, bilingual, GATE and sports, which families apply for separately, and a technology and arts programme covering digital technology, hard materials, science, food technology, music, dance and drama, media design and visual arts. English language learners are taught in their usual classes, with bilingual assistance, small-group or one-to-one help where needed.
At a glance
- Principal
- Helen Te Kiri (Acting)
- Address
- 72 Peachgrove Road, Hamilton East, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 855 7596
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Silverdale Hamilton, Fairview Downs Hamilton and Ruakura.
Parts of Hillcrest, Claudelands Hamilton, Hamilton East, Enderley Hamilton, Puketaha near Hamilton, Chartwell Hamilton and Newstead near Hamilton: 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 532 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 Report from March 2026. ERO found success and progress increasing, with a large majority of students meeting or exceeding expected levels in reading, writing and maths, results becoming fairer across groups in reading and maths but not yet in writing, and at-risk students clearly identified and well supported. A large majority of students feel they belong and have caring relationships with their teachers.
In Tiima Tahi, the school’s Māori-medium classes, a small majority meet expectations in writing and maths and less than half in reading.
Attendance is a concern: less than half of students attend regularly, behind the government target, though chronic absence is falling. ERO also recorded a gap in police vetting of new appointees, which the board has since taken steps to fix.
ERO’s key priorities are to lift regular attendance and cut chronic absence, deepen the use of data to guide improvement, and work with iwi and whānau on a Māori-medium strategic plan for Tiima Tahi with clear reporting to the board.
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.
Enrolment is done online, with a birth certificate or passport, proof of address and an immunisation certificate uploaded with the application. The school publishes its enrolment dates on its enrolment page each year, and families wanting the bilingual, GATE or sports class fill in a separate form for that class.
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 Hamilton East
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Questions parents ask
Is Peachgrove Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Silverdale Hamilton, Fairview Downs Hamilton and Ruakura and parts of Hillcrest, Claudelands Hamilton, Hamilton East, Enderley Hamilton, Puketaha near Hamilton, Chartwell Hamilton and Newstead near Hamilton.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
532 at 1 Oct 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?
485. 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, 10 Nov 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).