Last updated October 2026
Salford School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 110 Lamond Street, Hargest, Invercargill. It opened in 1970 and had 250 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Hargest, and parts of Rosedale, Waihopai and Waverley; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s website lists an after school care service, Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) and the Chatbus South mobile counselling service among its home and school supports.
At a glance
- Principal
- Sarah Gibbs
- Address
- 110 Lamond Street, Hargest, Invercargill
- Phone
- 03-217 9521
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Hargest.
Parts of Rosedale, Waihopai and Waverley: 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 250 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 Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from February 2023. It sets out an improvement evaluation that ERO and the school agreed to carry out on writing, after the school found that progress and achievement in writing were fairly low overall and that some groups of learners were not moving forward enough.
ERO noted strengths the school could build on: well-developed systems for student wellbeing and resilience, including culturally responsive support, a board and leaders who know how priority learners are achieving and direct resources to help them, and closer teamwork in syndicates, backed by a specialist teacher, that is building a more consistent writing programme. The report also notes that a Ruru satellite class is hosted on site.
The school’s priorities from the report are to set clear, consistent expectations across the school for planning, teaching and assessing writing, to build stronger learning partnerships with parents and whānau, and to check how well its actions are lifting writing, especially for learners who need to make faster progress.
Read the ERO reports for Salford School
Enrolling
Salford School runs an enrolment scheme. Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Out-of-zone places are offered under the scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places.
The school’s enrolment page sets out the zone boundaries and has a form to request an enrolment pack.
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 Hargest
Salford School is in Hargest. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Hargest guide →Questions parents ask
Is Salford School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Hargest and parts of Rosedale, Waihopai and Waverley.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
250 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?
422. 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, 22 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).