Last updated November 2026
Fairfield Primary School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 260 Clarkin Road, Fairfield, Hamilton. It opened in 1919 and had 350 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Claudelands, Fairfield, Enderley and Chartwell; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s information booklet describes a strong focus on literacy and numeracy, support programmes for children with additional needs, a breakfast club, free healthy school lunches and its own swimming pool.
Children can play in touch, basketball and netball teams and take part in athletics, cross country and other events with schools in the Fairfield cluster.
At a glance
- Principal
- Anne Johnson
- Address
- 260 Clarkin Road, Fairfield, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 855 6284
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Claudelands Hamilton, Fairfield Hamilton, Enderley Hamilton and Chartwell 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 350 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 January 2026. ERO found that a well-resourced structured literacy programme, with training for teachers, is improving progress and making outcomes fairer across groups. It described good quality teaching in reading, writing and mathematics, collaborative leadership, a planned approach to growing staff skills, good support for learners with complex needs and a board and staff focused on every learner.
In reading a small majority of learners are at or above the expected curriculum level, and in writing and mathematics less than half are.
Attendance is a priority: less than half of students attend regularly and the school is behind the government’s 80% target, although attendance is improving and chronic absence is falling.
The priorities are to lift regular attendance, review assessment so it lines up with the updated curriculum, and speed up progress in reading, writing and mathematics. ERO recommended that the Secretary for Education consider intervention to bring in specialist help with these three areas.
Enrolling
Families who live in the home zone can enrol at any time, bringing a birth certificate or passport, proof of address and an immunisation record. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
The enrolment page sets out the full zone boundary street by street and the priority order for out-of-zone applicants. Under the scheme, the board advertises its out-of-zone places and closing date in a local newspaper each year, and families outside the zone can ask the office for details.
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.
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Questions parents ask
Is Fairfield Primary School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Claudelands Hamilton, Fairfield Hamilton, Enderley Hamilton and Chartwell Hamilton.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
350 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?
541. 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).