Last updated November 2026
Lytton Street School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at Lytton Street, Feilding. It opened in 1901 and had 582 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
It has no home zone, so any student can apply. Its site describes Walker Learning, a personalised approach built around hands-on investigation, alongside a focus on literacy, numeracy and outdoor education, and a kapa haka group named Te Rerenga Kōtare.
The school also takes international students with daily ESOL support, runs a Kick Start to School class for children about to turn five, and hosts sKids before and after school and holiday care in the school hall.
At a glance
- Principal
- Ben Ward-Smith
- Address
- Lytton Street, Feilding
- Phone
- 06 323 6687
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 582 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 September 2025. ERO found success and progress rising for all students, and gave its strongest ratings for the quality of teaching and for the school’s planning and conditions.
A large majority of students were at or above the expected curriculum level in reading and most were in maths, but only a small majority were in writing, where results are not yet fair across all groups.
Students feel they belong, staff know them and their whānau well, and structured literacy and maths programmes are in place. A large majority attend regularly and the school is getting close to the Government’s target.
ERO’s priorities for the school are to bring its assessment into line with curriculum changes, deepen teachers’ understanding of the new English and maths curriculum, lift reading, writing and maths with particular attention to boys’ writing and fairer results between groups, and raise regular attendance further.
Read the ERO reports for Lytton Street School
Enrolling
Lytton Street School has no enrolment scheme, so any student can apply. Its enrolment page has a welcome booklet, a printable enrolment form and a link to an online form, and the school has separate pages for international students.
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 Feilding near Palmerston North
Lytton Street School is in Feilding near Palmerston North. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Feilding near Palmerston North guide →Questions parents ask
Is Lytton Street 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?
582 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?
478. 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, 24 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).