Last updated October 2026
Riverlands School is a state, co-educational full primary school for Years 1 to 8 at 21 School Road, Blenheim. It opened in 1906 and had 185 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes all of Riverlands, and parts of Redwood Pass, Wither Hills, Blenheim CBD, Redwoodtown and Seddon; the zone map below shows the full boundary.
The school’s site describes a semi-rural school on Blenheim’s southern edge that uses Positive Behaviour for Learning, with whole-school kapa haka and waiata on Friday afternoons and a kapa haka performance group open to Years 4 to 8. Students can also join school sports teams and take part in the Kids Edible Gardens programme run with the Marlborough District Council.
At a glance
- Principal
- Bradley Roberts
- Address
- 21 School Road, Blenheim
- Phone
- 03 578 7077
Home zone
Suburbs in the zone: all of Riverlands.
Parts of Redwood Pass, Wither Hills, Blenheim CBD, Redwoodtown and Seddon: 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 185 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 Report from August 2025. ERO rated teaching as high quality and found that a large majority of students meet or exceed curriculum expectations in reading and maths, but only a small majority in writing, with results not yet even across groups of learners.
Attendance is well behind the government target: fewer than half of students attend regularly and chronic absence is not yet falling, although the school has a suitable plan and regular attendance is improving.
Students feel well and included and know the school values, learners with complex needs are well supported, and structured literacy is in place across the school while a structured maths programme is being introduced.
The school’s priorities are stronger school-wide assessment and better use of the results, better progress in reading, writing and maths, especially boys’ writing, more even results between groups of learners, bringing its programmes into line with national curriculum changes, and lifting regular attendance while reducing chronic absence.
Read the ERO reports for Riverlands 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 asks families to confirm they are in zone, then complete its online enrolment form, and welcomes visits before a child starts.
New entrants start in groups at set points each term after a series of settling-in visits, and the school publishes its cohort start dates on its enrolment page.
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 Riverlands
Riverlands School is in Riverlands. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Riverlands guide →Questions parents ask
Is Riverlands School zoned?
It has a home zone covering all of Riverlands and parts of Redwood Pass, Wither Hills, Blenheim CBD, Redwoodtown and Seddon.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 8.
How many students go there?
185 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?
467. 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).