Opononi Area School
Composite · State · Omapere, Kaikohe
161 students on the roll in Omapere · EQI 537.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 537. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 263 State Highway 12, Omapere, Kaikohe, 440
- Roll: 161 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1974
- Isolation index 2.8, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 09-4058500
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Rosina Wikaira
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 Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hokianga, decile 2 · EQI 521 · 6.3 km
- Te Kura o Mātihetihe, decile 1 · EQI 552 · 14.1 km
- Te Kura o Ōmanaia, decile 1 · EQI 529 · 14.5 km
- Te Kura Taumata o Panguru, decile 1 · EQI 542 · 16.5 km
- Rawene School, decile 3 · EQI 523 · 17.4 km
- Waima School, decile 1 · EQI 552 · 18.3 km
- Te Kura ā Iwi o Pawarenga, EQI 537 · 23.2 km
- Kohukohu School, decile 2 · EQI 543 · 23.4 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 November 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Composite · State · Co-Educational, in Omapere.
161 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 537, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 1.
263 State Highway 12, Omapere, Kaikohe. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.