Te Paina School
Full Primary · State · Mercer
62 students on the roll · EQI 513.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 513. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 15 Glass Road, Mercer, 2474
- Roll: 62 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1876
- Isolation index 0.53, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 09-2326817
- Email: office@tepaina.school.nz
- Contact: Haley Christopher (Acting)
- Website: tepaina.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
- Meremere School, decile 1 · EQI 522 · 4.8 km
- Pokeno School, decile 4 · EQI 429 · 5.2 km
- Mangatawhiri School, decile 7 · EQI 436 · 9.1 km
- Pukekawa School, decile 8 · EQI 452 · 9.6 km
- Harrisville School, decile 5 · EQI 450 · 10.2 km
- Tuakau School, decile 2 · EQI 516 · 10.4 km
- Tuakau College, decile 4 · EQI 485 · 11.0 km
- Bombay School, decile 9 · EQI 407 · 11.5 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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
62 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 513, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 3.
15 Glass Road, , Mercer. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.