Queen Elizabeth College
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Palmerston North
400 students on the roll · EQI 556.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 556. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North, 4442
- Roll: 400 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1906
- Isolation index 0.06, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 06-3589033
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Chris Moller
- Website: qec.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
- Te Ohanui (Palmerston North Specialist School) (Proposed opening date: 2027-07-19), not rated · 44 m
- Central Normal School, decile 4 · EQI 491 · 453 m
- Palmerston North Boys' High School, decile 8 · EQI 441 · 463 m
- Mana Tamariki, decile 5 · EQI 444 · 1.0 km
- Russell Street School, decile 8 · EQI 429 · 1.1 km
- St Peter's College (Palmerston North), decile 6 · EQI 436 · 1.4 km
- Carncot Independent School, private, not rated · 1.5 km
- Palmerston North Adventist Christian School, decile 3 · EQI 433 · 1.6 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
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Co-Educational.
400 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 556, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 3.
Rangitikei Street, , Palmerston North. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.