Last updated November 2026
Westshore School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at Ferguson Avenue, Westshore, Napier. It opened in 1897 and had 73 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply. Its website says teaching makes use of the school gardens, the seashore and the estuary beside the school, and that it uses a structured literacy approach, with Little Learners Love Literacy decodable books and the Heggerty phonological awareness programme in the junior school.
The school also has a kapa haka group, and its site links to after school care and holiday programmes run by Beyond the Bell NZ.
At a glance
- Principal
- Martin Madden
- Address
- Ferguson Avenue, Westshore, Napier
- Phone
- 06 835 9565
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.
Who goes here
Share of the 73 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.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a School Report from May 2025. ERO found staff hold high expectations, students who need extra help with literacy and numeracy are picked up and given targeted support, and caring relationships with staff help children feel valued. Learners with complex needs were well supported, and structured literacy and numeracy teaching was progressing well.
ERO also found only a small majority of learners at or above the expected curriculum level in reading, writing and maths, with reading results not yet equitable across groups. Regular attendance was below the 80% target and not yet improving, and ERO said the school needs to make sure the environment is physically and emotionally safe.
During the review ERO and the board found two compliance gaps, in safety checking and police vetting of staff who work with children, and in following natural justice for stand-downs and suspensions; the board has since acted on both.
The agreed next steps are to lift attendance with more specific planned actions, make better use of achievement data in literacy and maths, build staff confidence in te reo Māori, tikanga and culturally responsive teaching, work more closely with whānau and the community, and train the board in its governance role and legal duties.
Read the ERO reports for Westshore School
Enrolling
Westshore School has no home zone and says it has an open enrolment policy, welcoming children from across Napier and Hastings District.
Families start with the online pre-enrolment form on the school’s website, can arrange a visit to look around, and then collect an enrolment pack from the office. The school asks for a birth certificate or passport and a copy of immunisation records, and new entrants have several short classroom visits 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 Westshore Napier
Westshore School is in Westshore Napier. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Westshore Napier guide →Questions parents ask
Is Westshore School zoned?
No. It has no home zone, so any student can apply to enrol.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
73 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?
500. 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, 26 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).