Otakiri School
Full Primary · State · Whakatane
154 students on the roll · EQI 466.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 466. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 571 Otakiri Road, Whakatane, 3193
- Roll: 154 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1919
- Isolation index 1.02, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 07-3048101
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Richard Gillespie
- Website: otakiri.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
- Edgecumbe School, decile 3 · EQI 494 · 6.0 km
- Rangitaiki College – Te Kura Tuarua o Rangitaiki, decile 3 · EQI 530 · 6.0 km
- Te Kura O Te Teko, decile 1 · EQI 532 · 6.1 km
- Matata School, decile 4 · EQI 514 · 10.3 km
- St Joseph's Catholic School (Matata), decile 2 · EQI 546 · 10.6 km
- Thornton School, decile 7 · EQI 451 · 11.1 km
- Awakeri School, decile 6 · EQI 447 · 11.8 km
- Te Whata Tau o Putauaki, decile 1 · EQI 541 · 11.9 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.
154 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 466, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
571 Otakiri Road, , Whakatane. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.