Last updated November 2026
Manchester Street School is a state, co-educational primary school for Years 1 to 6 at 160 Manchester Street, Feilding. It opened in 1874 and had 404 students on its roll at 1 September 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Feilding; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school’s site describes a Green-Gold Enviroschool with student enviro groups, camps for all ages and a kapa haka group, Tupu Ora, alongside core programmes in reading, writing and maths. Sport includes netball, rippa rugby, hockey and Kī-o-Rahi.
At a glance
- Principal
- Jared Fretwell
- Address
- 160 Manchester Street, Feilding
- Phone
- 06-323 6175
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Feilding near Palmerston North: 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 404 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 October 2025. ERO found success and progress rising for all students and good quality teaching. Most students were at or above the expected curriculum level in reading and maths, with fair results across groups, and a large majority in writing, where results are becoming fairer.
Students show a strong sense of belonging and pride, classrooms are calm and inclusive, structured literacy is in place, and the school is getting close to the Government’s attendance target. ERO found one compliance gap, police vetting of non-teaching staff not being renewed every three years, which the board has since fixed.
ERO’s priorities for the school are to sustain and lift regular attendance, make teaching and assessment more consistent, build the new structured literacy and maths expectations into its curriculum, raise achievement in reading, writing and maths, and embed te reo Māori and tikanga Māori across the school.
Read the ERO reports for Manchester Street School
Enrolling
Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol, and proof of address is needed. Out-of-zone places are offered under the school’s enrolment scheme, by ballot when there are more applicants than places, with priority for siblings of current and former students. The school publishes its out-of-zone enrolment periods and ballot dates on its enrolment page each year.
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
Manchester 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 Manchester Street School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Feilding near Palmerston North.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 6.
How many students go there?
404 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?
449. 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). 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).