Wā Ora Montessori
Composite · State : Integrated · Naenae, Lower Hutt
256 students on the roll in Naenae · EQI 396.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 396. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 278 Waddington Drive, Naenae, Lower Hutt, 5011
- Roll: 256 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations may be requested
- Opened 1992
- Isolation index 0.16, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 04-5672377
- Email: office@waora.school.nz
- Contact: Ava Szabo
- Website: waora.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
- Rata Street School, decile 2 · EQI 507 · 530 m
- St Bernadette's School (Naenae), decile 3 · EQI 488 · 750 m
- Naenae School, decile 1 · EQI 529 · 1.4 km
- Naenae Intermediate, decile 3 · EQI 483 · 1.6 km
- Kimi Ora School, decile 8 · EQI 467 · 1.7 km
- Avalon Intermediate, decile 2 · EQI 509 · 1.7 km
- Avalon School, decile 2 · EQI 487 · 1.7 km
- Naenae College, decile 3 · EQI 500 · 1.9 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Composite · State : Integrated · Co-Educational, in Naenae.
256 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 396, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 8.
278 Waddington Drive, Naenae, Lower Hutt. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.