Last updated October 2026
Fairfield Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at Clarkin Road, Fairfield, Hamilton. It opened in 1963 and had 879 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes 6 suburbs in full and parts of 10 more, among them Fairfield, Chartwell, Chedworth Park, Queenwood, Rototuna and Harrowfield; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site says students attend specialist classes twice a week across music, visual art, science, drama, workshop technology, hauora, digital technology and design and visual communication, and can join enrichment programmes such as kapa haka, Pasifika, engineering, nature school and outdoor education. It also lists a range of sports each term, music tuition, a concert band and rock bands, learning and behaviour support, school lunches through Ka Ora, Ka Ako, and an international department with English language support and homestays.
At a glance
- Principal
- Angela Walters (Acting)
- Address
- Clarkin Road, Fairfield, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 855 9718
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Harrowfield, Rototuna Hamilton, Queenwood Hamilton, Chedworth Park, Chartwell Hamilton and Fairfield Hamilton.
Parts of Flagstaff Hamilton, Huntington, Enderley Hamilton, Rototuna North, Fairview Downs Hamilton, Puketaha near Hamilton, Ruakura, Claudelands Hamilton, St Andrews and Beerescourt 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 879 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
6 international students
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.
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 November 2024. ERO found the school is working to reduce inequity between groups of students.
A small majority achieve at or above the expected curriculum level in reading and writing and less than half do so in maths, and lifting progress and fairer outcomes for Māori learners remains a priority. Students who get extra learning support are making progress, many at a faster rate.
A small majority attend regularly; attendance is improving, especially for Māori students, but the school is not yet meeting the Ministry’s target.
ERO noted that students have a strong sense of belonging, leadership is cohesive and planning gives clear direction, teaching is increasingly culturally responsive, classroom routines are well established, and students have a wide range of learning and extracurricular options that help them move on to secondary school.
ERO’s next steps are to improve attendance, keep raising progress and achievement in reading, writing and maths, especially for Māori students, and keep strengthening culturally responsive teaching, including mātauranga Māori and the local curriculum.
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, with priority for siblings of current students.
Enrolment packs go out through local contributing primary schools each year and are also available from the school office, and families can enrol online. The school posts its enrolment information, zoning details and key dates on its enrolment page each year.
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 Fairfield Hamilton
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Questions parents ask
Is Fairfield Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Harrowfield, Rototuna Hamilton, Queenwood Hamilton, Chedworth Park, Chartwell Hamilton and Fairfield Hamilton and parts of Flagstaff Hamilton, Huntington, Enderley Hamilton, Rototuna North, Fairview Downs Hamilton, Puketaha near Hamilton, Ruakura, Claudelands Hamilton, St Andrews and Beerescourt Hamilton.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
879 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?
475. 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).