Last updated October 2026
Bankwood School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 152 Bankwood Road, Chartwell, Hamilton. It opened in 1964 and had 344 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Chartwell, Chedworth Park, Fairfield and Puketaha; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes three bilingual classrooms with a stronger focus on te reo and tikanga Māori, te reo Māori in every classroom, structured literacy and maths, science as a specialist subject, and one-to-one Apple devices in the middle and senior school. YMCA North runs after school care on site.
At a glance
- Principal
- Hone Waudby
- Address
- 152 Bankwood Road, Chartwell, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 855 7763
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Chartwell Hamilton, Chedworth Park, Fairfield Hamilton and Puketaha 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 344 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 September 2023. This kind of report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together, here how well the school uses data to shape teaching and support student progress, at a time when it was reviewing its internal systems and how it reports progress to families.
ERO pointed to well-established Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) supporting wellbeing and relationships, professional learning to improve teaching, and teachers who are open to change.
Next, the school plans to bring in a regular termly cycle of data review to guide teaching, build a shared language of learning progressions with suitable assessment tools, and review its student-led conferences and how parents and whānau take part.
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Families can collect an enrolment application from the school office and need to show two proofs of address in the zone, along with a birth certificate or passport and immunisation details.
Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places. The school’s site has an out-of-zone expression of interest form and the enrolment scheme with a zone map.
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 Chartwell Hamilton
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Questions parents ask
Is Bankwood School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Chartwell Hamilton, Chedworth Park, Fairfield Hamilton and Puketaha near Hamilton.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
344 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?
526. 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).