Te Puna School
Full Primary · State · Te Puna
260 students on the roll · EQI 466.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 466. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 225 Te Puna Road, Te Puna, 3176
- Roll: 260 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1896
- Isolation index 0.29, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 07-5525715
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Neil Towersey
- Website: tepuna.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
- Bethlehem School, decile 8 · EQI 423 · 3.2 km
- Te Wharekura o Mauao, decile 3 · EQI 522 · 3.4 km
- Omokoroa School, decile 10 · EQI 423 · 3.9 km
- Bellevue School (Tauranga), decile 6 · EQI 445 · 4.3 km
- Bethlehem College, decile 9 · EQI 409 · 4.5 km
- Ōtūmoetai College, decile 7 · EQI 451 · 4.6 km
- Ōtūmoetai Intermediate, decile 7 · EQI 440 · 4.7 km
- Matua School, decile 9 · EQI 401 · 4.8 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.
260 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 466, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 7.
225 Te Puna Road, , Te Puna. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.