Waihi College
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Waihi
550 students on the roll · EQI 485.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 485. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Kensington Road, Waihi, 3641
- Roll: 550 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1954
- Isolation index 0.84, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Small urban area
- Phone: 07-8638349
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Briar Carden-Scott
- Website: waihicol.school.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
- Waihi Central School, decile 2 · EQI 534 · 793 m
- Te Wharekura o Te Waitangi o Hinemuri (Proposed opening date: 2027-01-01), not rated · 1.0 km
- St Joseph's Catholic School (Waihi), decile 3 · EQI 447 · 1.4 km
- Waihi East School, decile 3 · EQI 470 · 2.3 km
- Waimata School, decile 3 · EQI 489 · 5.7 km
- Waikino School, decile 5 · EQI 462 · 5.9 km
- Waihi Beach School, decile 7 · EQI 442 · 9.7 km
- Karangahake School, decile 3 · EQI 480 · 10.3 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
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Co-Educational.
550 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 485, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
Kensington Road, , Waihi. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.