Mercury Bay Area School
Composite · State · Whitianga
862 students on the roll · EQI 465.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 465. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- South Highway, Whitianga, 3510
- Roll: 862 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1976
- Isolation index 2.07, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Small urban area
- Phone: 07-8665916
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Ross Dunn
- Website: mbas.ac.nz
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
- Coroglen School, decile 5 · EQI 490 · 9.2 km
- Whenuakite School, decile 7 · EQI 428 · 10.8 km
- Te Rerenga School, decile 6 · EQI 428 · 13.2 km
- Te Wharekura o Manaia, decile 2 · EQI 521 · 19.6 km
- Coromandel Area School, decile 3 · EQI 512 · 19.9 km
- Tairua School, decile 7 · EQI 440 · 23.1 km
- TKKM o Harataunga, decile 2 · EQI 521 · 23.3 km
- Tapu School, decile 5 · EQI 521 · 23.7 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.
862 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 465, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
South Highway, , Whitianga. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.