Last updated October 2026
Waikato Diocesan School For Girls is a state-integrated, girls’ secondary school for Years 9 to 13 at 660 River Road, Hamilton. It opened in 1928 and had 675 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply. The school’s site describes an Anglican school whose six values are courage, empathy, integrity, tolerance, respect and diligence, with a chaplaincy and religious studies alongside physical education and health for every student. It has five boarding houses, with juniors and seniors in separate houses, and runs sport, arts and culture, outdoor education and exchange programmes, and it takes international students, who live in the boarding houses and can join small ESOL classes.
At a glance
- Principal
- Angee Robertson
- Address
- 660 River Road, Hamilton
- Phone
- 07 855 2038
Home zone
No home zone: any student can apply to enrol. If more students apply than there are places, the school decides how places are offered.
NCEA results
School leavers with NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with all New Zealand school leavers.
This school New Zealand
School leavers are students who left school that year, whatever year level they left from.
Who goes here
Share of the 675 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
18 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.
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 August 2026. ERO gave the school its highest rating, Excelling, for student achievement, progress, foundational literacy and numeracy, and equity.
Almost all senior students gain NCEA qualifications, University Entrance and the NCEA literacy and numeracy requirements, results have held steady over time, and Scholarship results have improved.
ERO rated leadership, teaching, curriculum, attendance, engagement, support for students with additional needs and governance as Doing well, describing calm, respectful classrooms and effective pastoral care. Most students meet the government’s regular attendance target, although chronic absence is highest in Year 10, and junior reading and literacy progress are still areas to lift.
Assessment was the one area ERO rated as Working towards, because practice is not yet consistent across the school. ERO’s next steps are a fuller self-review programme to judge how well programmes and initiatives are working, a consistent schoolwide way of collecting and using achievement and wellbeing information, and stronger middle leadership to lead the new curriculum.
ERO also noted that formal individual planning for students with additional needs was limited, and said it is confident the school can make these improvements.
Read the ERO reports for Waikato Diocesan School For Girls
Enrolling
Waikato Diocesan has no home zone. As a state-integrated Anglican school, its site says it offers places to preference applicants first, in a set order that starts with baptised Anglican families active in a parish and also covers sisters of past and current students, daughters and granddaughters of former students, and families active in other Christian churches. Non-preference places are offered only if places remain.
Families apply online, and some applicants are invited to an interview before a place is offered. The school does not keep a waiting list, and it publishes its application process and closing dates on its Application Process page each year. Boarding and international students have their own pages.
Schools nearby
In Chartwell Hamilton
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Read our Chartwell Hamilton guide →Questions parents ask
Is Waikato Diocesan School For Girls zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 9 to 13.
How many students go there?
675 at 1 Sep 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
It may. It is not in the donation scheme, so it can ask families for donations.
What is its Equity Index?
391. 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.
Is it a single-sex school?
Yes. It takes girls only.
How did its school leavers do in NCEA?
In 2025, 96.6% of its school leavers had NCEA Level 2 or above, compared with 77.8% of all New Zealand school leavers.
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, 22 Oct 2026 (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).