Matamata College
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Matamata
800 students on the roll · EQI 479.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 479. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Firth Street, Matamata, 3440
- Roll: 800 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1918
- Isolation index 0.66, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Small urban area
- Phone: 07-8819018
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Angela Sharples
- Website: matcol.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
- Matamata Intermediate, decile 5 · EQI 472 · 447 m
- Firth School, decile 3 · EQI 511 · 547 m
- Matamata Christian School, decile 5 · EQI 425 · 681 m
- St Joseph's Catholic School (Matamata), decile 5 · EQI 447 · 734 m
- Matamata Primary School, decile 6 · EQI 443 · 757 m
- Te Kura o Waharoa, decile 1 · EQI 563 · 6.4 km
- Hinuera School, decile 7 · EQI 435 · 7.2 km
- Te Poi School, decile 7 · EQI 486 · 9.1 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
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Co-Educational.
800 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 479, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
Firth Street, , Matamata. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.