Last updated October 2026
Maeroa Intermediate is a state, co-educational intermediate school for Years 7 and 8 at Churchill Avenue, Hamilton. It opened in 1954 and had 700 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Western Heights, Maeroa, Forest Lake and Beerescourt, and parts of Dinsdale, Nawton, Grandview Heights, Te Rapa, Whitiora, Frankton, Temple View, Avalon and St Andrews; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
Alongside its composite homeroom classes, the school’s site describes Te Puaawaitanga, a bilingual double class with daily te reo Māori and a strong kapa haka focus, plus a GATE class (Te Ara Poutama) and a Sports Unit, which families apply for when enrolling.
Every student takes technology and arts specialist classes twice a week, from food technology and STEM to visual art, music and media arts, and extra-curricular options include kapa haka, Pasifika, subsidised music lessons and a long list of sports.
At a glance
- Principal
- Susan Wood
- Address
- Churchill Avenue, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 847 5014
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Forest Lake, Maeroa, Western Heights Hamilton and Beerescourt Hamilton.
Parts of Dinsdale Hamilton, Nawton, Grandview Heights, Te Rapa, Whitiora Hamilton, Frankton Hamilton, Temple View, Avalon and St Andrews: 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 700 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 Evaluation Report from April 2025. ERO found a large majority of students at or above expected curriculum levels in reading and mathematics, but just over half in writing, with the school still working to close gaps for Māori students and for boys, and not yet meeting the Ministry’s attendance target.
ERO noted collaborative leadership, a strong focus on literacy and maths, orderly classrooms with clear routines and respectful relationships, and students who report feeling safe. In Te Puaawaitanga, ākonga lead te reo and tikanga practices and most attend regularly; a large majority are achieving in reading, while less than half are at expected levels in maths and writing.
The agreed next steps are to make better use of data to judge the impact of teaching on achievement, progress and attendance, speed up progress for students below expected levels in reading, writing and maths, lift regular attendance in the English-medium classes, bring more mātauranga and te reo Māori into English-medium classrooms, and set clear goals and professional learning for Te Puaawaitanga.
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Families book an enrolment appointment and bring two proofs of address, and the school asks in-zone families to apply for the following year by a date it posts on its website.
Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places. The school publishes an enrolment timeline on its website each year, covering the out-of-zone ballot if one is needed and the trials for its specialist classes.
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 Maeroa
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Questions parents ask
Is Maeroa Intermediate zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Forest Lake, Maeroa, Western Heights Hamilton and Beerescourt Hamilton and parts of Dinsdale Hamilton, Nawton, Grandview Heights, Te Rapa, Whitiora Hamilton, Frankton Hamilton, Temple View, Avalon and St Andrews.
What years does it teach?
Years 7 to 8.
How many students go there?
700 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?
495. 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).