Last updated October 2026
Durie Hill School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at Portal Street, Durie Hill, Whanganui. It opened in 1873 and had 189 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Pūtiki, Durie Hill and Bastia Hill, and parts of Marybank, Okoia and Fordell; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site lists weekly te reo Māori sessions for each class with an outside tutor, the arts including the Kids for Kids concert, practical environmental education and Bikes in Schools, along with a swimming pool that has a lane pool and two learner pools. It also lists inter-school sport such as swimming, athletics, football, hockey, netball and rippa rugby, and after-school teams in tee-ball, cricket, netball, hockey and touch.
At a glance
- Principal
- Sheena Stampa (Acting)
- Address
- Portal Street, Durie Hill, Whanganui
- Phone
- 06 345 5946
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Pūtiki, Durie Hill Whanganui and Bastia Hill Whanganui.
Parts of Marybank, Okoia and Fordell: 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 189 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 July 2024. ERO found that outcomes for students have improved over time, and that an earlier gap in writing results for Māori students and boys has been addressed.
Many students meet curriculum expectations in reading, writing and maths, and structured literacy approaches are helping students make faster progress. Attendance strategies, including timely contact with whānau, mean most students attend regularly. ERO highlighted leaders who guide teaching well, thorough processes for students with additional and complex needs, highly collaborative staff, and a strategic plan developed with the community.
The agreed next steps are to strengthen partnerships with whānau, iwi and the wider community, share strategies that support student wellbeing and inclusion, and keep building staff capability through professional learning to lift progress, achievement and attendance. Team leaders are also to develop a progression framework for teaching te reo Māori.
Read the ERO reports for Durie Hill School
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. The school sets out its zone and each year’s out-of-zone application timeline on its enrolment page, and asks families of new entrants to complete an intention to enrol form early.
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 Durie Hill Whanganui
Durie Hill School is in Durie Hill Whanganui. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Durie Hill Whanganui guide →Questions parents ask
Is Durie Hill School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Pūtiki, Durie Hill Whanganui and Bastia Hill Whanganui and parts of Marybank, Okoia and Fordell.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
189 at 1 Sep 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?
463. 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, 29 Oct 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).