Te Puru School
Full Primary · State · Te Puru
175 students on the roll · EQI 456 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 456. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 507 Thames Coast Road, Te Puru, 3575
- Roll: 175 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1903
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 1.36, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 07-8682747
- Email: office@tepuru.school.nz
- Contact: Karla Hull
- Website: tepuru.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.
Enrolment zone
- Te Puru School, in force from 2014-01-27 · 46 km²
Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Tapu School, decile 5 · EQI 521 · 6.5 km
- Moanataiari School, decile 4 · EQI 465 · 9.8 km
- Thames High School, decile 5 · EQI 489 · 11.1 km
- St Francis School (Thames), decile 5 · EQI 409 · 11.6 km
- Thames South School, decile 2 · EQI 541 · 11.7 km
- Pārāwai School, decile 5 · EQI 468 · 13.2 km
- Matatoki School, decile 5 · EQI 459 · 19.8 km
- Kopuarahi School, decile 4 · EQI 524 · 19.9 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.
175 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 456, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
1 zone polygon on record. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.