The school is located on the eastern side of Papakura, close to Ardmore Airport and near Red Hill.

The school is also part of a program that adds a social worker to its team several days a week in an effort to build stronger communities.

The school also has a bilingual and two rumaki reo on site and is home to the Kelvin Road Whanau Centre[4] a branch of the Great Potentials charity that helps support families and provides such as the HIPPY[5] program as well as kindergarten care.

Recently the school has been involved in the second Literacy professional development initiative[7] run by the Ministry of Education and has achieved outstanding results.

[8] Currently the school is involved in the Papakura Achievement Initiative, which has a strong focus on Literacy.