Last updated October 2026
Crawshaw School is a state, co-educational full primary school for Years 1 to 8 at Crawshaw Drive, Nawton, Hamilton. It opened in 1988 and had 294 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Avalon, Grandview Heights and Nawton, and parts of Western Heights, Baverstock and Rotokauri; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site says it is a PB4L school, and lists counsellors and a social worker who work with students on site, free hot lunches through Ka Ora, Ka Ako, and a breakfast club each school day. A community dental clinic on Crawshaw Drive offers free dental care for children.
At a glance
- Principal
- Vicki Meagher
- Address
- Crawshaw Drive, Nawton, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 849 1565
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Grandview Heights, Avalon and Nawton.
Parts of Western Heights Hamilton, Baverstock and Rotokauri 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 294 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 2024. ERO and the school are evaluating how far leadership and teaching are speeding up progress and making learning and wellbeing outcomes fairer, because achievement was not yet equitable.
ERO noted that leaders are setting a clear improvement agenda, school-wide professional learning is focused on raising achievement, and partnerships with the community are growing.
ERO also said it has concerns: student progress and achievement need to improve significantly, and effective teaching is not yet consistent across the school. It recommended that a limited statutory manager appointed by the Ministry of Education keep supporting the board, including with stronger systems for managing compliance.
Next, the school plans to strengthen how it monitors and tracks achievement and progress, use agreed assessment tools consistently, make better use of assessment information to meet learners’ needs, and work with whānau as partners in their children’s learning.
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 school’s website links to an online enrolment form.
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 Nawton
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Questions parents ask
Is Crawshaw School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Grandview Heights, Avalon and Nawton and parts of Western Heights Hamilton, Baverstock and Rotokauri Hamilton.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 8.
How many students go there?
294 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?
536. 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).