Tauranga Special School
Specialist School · State · Tauranga South, Tauranga
134 students on the roll in Tauranga South · EQI 499.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 499. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 39 Eighteenth Avenue, Tauranga South, Tauranga, 3112
- Roll: 134 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1963
- Isolation index 0.12, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in a Pacific language
- Phone: 07-5784424
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Dale Megson
- Website: taurangaspecialschool.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
- Tauranga Intermediate, decile 5 · EQI 475 · 76 m
- Gate Pa School, decile 2 · EQI 507 · 862 m
- Tauranga Girls' College, decile 6 · EQI 466 · 942 m
- Tauranga Boys' College, decile 6 · EQI 456 · 1.0 km
- St Mary's Catholic School (Tauranga), decile 8 · EQI 385 · 1.1 km
- Merivale School, decile 1 · EQI 548 · 1.4 km
- Maungatapu School, decile 5 · EQI 468 · 2.0 km
- Tauranga Primary School, decile 7 · EQI 423 · 2.3 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
Specialist School · State · Co-Educational, in Tauranga South.
134 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 499, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
39 Eighteenth Avenue, Tauranga South, Tauranga. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.