Tāwera Bilingual School
Full Primary · State · Ruatoki, Whakatane
33 students on the roll in Ruatoki · EQI 547.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 547. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 164 Ngahina Road, Ruatoki, Whakatane, 3191
- Roll: 33 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1931
- Isolation index 1.51, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 07-3129187
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Hiria Te Moana
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
- Te Wharekura o Ruatoki, decile 2 · EQI 524 · 1.9 km
- Waimana School, decile 2 · EQI 542 · 7.6 km
- Taneatua School, decile 1 · EQI 552 · 9.9 km
- Nukuhou North School, decile 3 · EQI 532 · 12.6 km
- Te Kura Māori ā Rohe o Waiohau, decile 1 · EQI 534 · 15.0 km
- Te Mahoe School, decile 1 · EQI 556 · 15.6 km
- Te Kura Mana Maori O Matahi, decile 1 · EQI 562 · 16.1 km
- Kutarere School, decile 1 · EQI 536 · 18.5 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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational, in Ruatoki.
33 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 547, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
164 Ngahina Road, Ruatoki, Whakatane. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.