Whanganui High School
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Whanganui
1,456 students on the roll · EQI 482.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 482. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 76 Purnell Street, Whanganui, 4541
- Roll: 1,456 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1958
- Isolation index 0.32, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 06-3490178
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Martin McAllen
- Website: whanganuihigh.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
- Carlton School, decile 3 · EQI 507 · 166 m
- Whanganui Collegiate School, decile 9 · EQI 417 · 735 m
- St George's School, private, not rated · 769 m
- Arahunga School, decile 3 · EQI 527 · 861 m
- St Anthony's School (Wanganui), private, not rated · 908 m
- St Dominic's College, private, not rated · 982 m
- Gonville School, decile 2 · EQI 513 · 1.0 km
- Te Kura Waenga O Rutherford | Rutherford Intermediate School, decile 1 · EQI 539 · 1.0 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
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Co-Educational.
1,456 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 482, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
76 Purnell Street, , Whanganui. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.