Purua School
Full Primary · State · Purua, Whangarei
29 students on the roll in Purua · EQI 513.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 513. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 20 Irvine Road, Purua, Whangarei, 176
- Roll: 29 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1892
- Isolation index 1.19, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 09-4335841
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Autumn Ede
Who the roll is
Students may identify with more than one group, the counts are the Ministry’s own and need not sum to the roll.
Other schools near here
- Te Horo School (Whangarei), decile 2 · EQI 562 · 8.3 km
- Kokopu School, decile 8 · EQI 461 · 8.8 km
- Matarau School, decile 8 · EQI 440 · 10.7 km
- Mangakahia Area School, decile 3 · EQI 560 · 12.0 km
- Poroti School, decile 3 · EQI 501 · 12.2 km
- Hukerenui School Years 1-8, decile 5 · EQI 476 · 14.8 km
- Maromaku School, decile 3 · EQI 485 · 16.2 km
- Maungatapere School, decile 9 · EQI 430 · 16.3 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 November 2026.
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Questions, answered briefly
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational, in Purua.
29 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 513, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 7.
20 Irvine Road, Purua, Whangarei. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.