Last updated November 2026
Frankton School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at Massey Street, Dinsdale, Hamilton. It opened in 1911 and had 727 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Dinsdale, Frankton and Temple View; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school builds its culture around the Virtues Project, is an Enviroschool, offers kapa haka and sport teams including netball, hockey and basketball, and teaches swimming in its own pool. It is part of the free healthy school lunches programme.
At a glance
- Principal
- Kirsten Ratana
- Address
- Massey Street, Dinsdale, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 847 6726
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Dinsdale Hamilton, Frankton Hamilton and Temple View: 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 727 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 May 2026. ERO found the school had built strong, lasting partnerships with whānau through well-designed planning and relationship-focused practice, and that new approaches to getting children ready to learn are starting to make a difference.
Students learn in an inclusive, culturally aware environment where kawa and tikanga are upheld, staff work together around each learner’s needs, including those with additional needs, and targeted professional learning is improving teaching.
Achievement needs to rise: in reading, writing and mathematics fewer than half of learners are at or above the expected curriculum level, and results are not yet equitable across groups. A small majority of students attend regularly, below the government’s 80% target, and neither regular attendance nor chronic absence is yet improving.
The priorities are to lift progress, achievement and equity, agree a plan for the updated curriculum and assessment, benchmark and moderate teacher judgements in reading, writing and mathematics, and raise attendance.
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. In-zone families complete the in-zone enrolment pack, and out-of-zone families complete a ballot form.
The board reviews its roll each term and advertises out-of-zone places ahead of each ballot; the out-of-zone page sets out the process, the ballot dates and the streets in the zone. New entrants who gain a place can attend the school’s Jump Start transition programme for a term before they start.
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 Frankton Hamilton
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Questions parents ask
Is Frankton School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Dinsdale Hamilton, Frankton Hamilton and Temple View.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
727 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?
496. 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).