Kaipara Flats School

Kaipara Flats School is a State Contributing Primary School, established in 1878.

The school is situated in the village of Kaipara Flats, 12 kms west of Warkworth and serves the community of Kaipara Flats and the Kaipara Hills, although a number of children travel from other areas to attend KFS.

The school is attractively sited on a rise above a spacious playing field, extensive adventure challenge equipment, a solar heated swimming pool and hard-court area.

The school is served by two school buses under contract to the Mahurangi Transport Network. One bus runs to Kaipara Flats from Warkworth, and the other serves the Kaipara Hills. A few children travel to school by car or walk.

Kaipara Flats School is a decile 9, U2 School with four active classrooms and a teaching staff of 4.8FTTE.

The school roll currently stands at 90 pupils.

A new library was built in 2005.The school has recently had an ICT infrastructure upgrade providing the students and teachers with leading edge digital technology.

Many children who enrol at Kaipara Flats School have attended the local pre-schools. Most students leave to attend Mahurangi College at the end of Year 6.

The school is well supported by the community and has an active PTA.
Kaipara Flats has historically been a farming area but recently the lifestyle blocks have been developed and this has resulted in a change to the wider community socio " economic status and multi - cultural makeup.

The school community is very supportive especially when providing transport for Outdoor Education activity, involvement in school learning programmes and attending the monthly community school assemblies. There is a deep awareness of learning expectation and the benefit of healthy relationships between home & school.

This is a school community with great passion and potential and it is within that the true gems of success can be found.