# Umawera School

Contributing · State · Umawera

https://www.chch.live/school/1119-umawera-school

## Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2 · Current Equity Index: 502

*Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.*

## The record
- State Highway 1, Umawera, 476
- Roll: 27 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1896
- Isolation index 2.26, the Ministry’s remoteness measure
- Setting: Rural other
- Roll by ethnicity: European 7 · MELAA 1
- Phone: 09-4018806
- Email: office@umawera.school.nz
- Contact: Christine Gilmore

## Other schools near here
- [Horeke School](https://www.chch.live/school/1016-horeke-school), decile 1 · EQI 565
- [Mangamuka School](https://www.chch.live/school/1037-mangamuka-school), decile 1 · EQI 556
- [Kohukohu School](https://www.chch.live/school/1035-kohukohu-school), decile 2 · EQI 543
- [Rawene School](https://www.chch.live/school/1093-rawene-school), decile 3 · EQI 523
- [Broadwood Area School](https://www.chch.live/school/6-broadwood-area-school), decile 1 · EQI 558
- [Okaihau Primary School](https://www.chch.live/school/1059-okaihau-primary-school), decile 4 · EQI 510
- [Okaihau College](https://www.chch.live/school/7-okaihau-college), decile 2 · EQI 516
- [Te Kura o Ōmanaia](https://www.chch.live/school/1060-te-kura-o-omanaia), decile 1 · EQI 529

What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-35.285067&lon=173.574373

## Questions, answered briefly

**What kind of school is Umawera School?**

Contributing · State · Co-Educational.

**How many students does Umawera School have?**

27 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.

**What is Umawera School's Equity Index?**

EQI 502, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.

**Where is Umawera School?**

State Highway 1, , Umawera. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.


Data: https://api.chch.live/school?id=1119 · directory refreshed 3 November 2026