Te Kura o Te Paroa
Full Primary · State · Whakatane
297 students on the roll · EQI 520.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 520. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 34 Paroa Road, Whakatane, 3191
- Roll: 297 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1893
- Isolation index 1.11, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Medium urban area
- Phone: 07-3086652
- Email: office@paroa.school.nz
- Contact: Erin Te Pou
- Website: paroa.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
- Whakatane Teen Parent Unit, decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.1 km
- Whakatane Intermediate, decile 4 · EQI 486 · 2.8 km
- James Street School, decile 2 · EQI 507 · 2.9 km
- Whakatane S D A School, decile 4 · EQI 470 · 3.2 km
- Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Orini ki Ngati Awa, decile 2 · EQI 517 · 3.3 km
- Trident High School, decile 4 · EQI 496 · 3.9 km
- St Joseph's Catholic School (Whakatane), decile 6 · EQI 430 · 4.0 km
- Whakatane High School, decile 4 · EQI 475 · 4.2 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
297 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 520, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
34 Paroa Road, , Whakatane. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.