Kaitao Intermediate
Intermediate · State · Western Heights, Rotorua
258 students on the roll in Western Heights · EQI 540.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 540. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 30 Bell Road, Western Heights, Rotorua, 3015
- Roll: 258 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1969
- Isolation index 0.34, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 07-3483687
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Phil Palfrey
- Website: kaitao.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
- Western Heights High School, decile 4 · EQI 499 · 663 m
- St Michael's Catholic School (Rotorua), decile 4 · EQI 444 · 668 m
- Western Heights Primary School (Rotorua), decile 1 · EQI 536 · 895 m
- Rotorua Specialist School - Te Kura Pūkenga o Rotorua, decile 2 · EQI 523 · 1.0 km
- Selwyn School, decile 2 · EQI 544 · 1.1 km
- Te Rangihakahaka Centre for Science and Technology, EQI 513 · 1.2 km
- TKKM o Te Koutu, decile 3 · EQI 485 · 1.3 km
- Aorangi School (Rotorua), decile 1 · EQI 554 · 1.4 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
Intermediate · State · Co-Educational, in Western Heights.
258 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 540, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
30 Bell Road, Western Heights, Rotorua. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.