Thornton School
Full Primary · State · Thornton, Whakatane
167 students on the roll in Thornton · EQI 451.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 451. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 43 Eastbank Road, Thornton, Whakatane, 3193
- Roll: 167 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1912
- Isolation index 1.12, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 07-3049308
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Shelley Bremner
- Website: thornton.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
- Rangitaiki College – Te Kura Tuarua o Rangitaiki, decile 3 · EQI 530 · 5.7 km
- Edgecumbe School, decile 3 · EQI 494 · 5.8 km
- Whakatane Teen Parent Unit, decile 1 · EQI 569 · 6.7 km
- Te Kura o Te Paroa, decile 2 · EQI 520 · 7.4 km
- Awakeri School, decile 6 · EQI 447 · 8.3 km
- Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Orini ki Ngati Awa, decile 2 · EQI 517 · 9.6 km
- Matata School, decile 4 · EQI 514 · 9.8 km
- St Joseph's Catholic School (Matata), decile 2 · EQI 546 · 10.0 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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational, in Thornton.
167 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 451, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 7.
43 Eastbank Road, Thornton, Whakatane. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.