Te Kura o Waitahanui
Composite · State · Waitahanui, Taupo
102 students on the roll in Waitahanui · EQI 527.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 527. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 107 State Highway 1, Waitahanui, Taupo, 3378
- Roll: 102 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1905
- Isolation index 0.75, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: All students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 07-3784511
- Email: tari@waitahanui.school.nz
- Contact: Te Arohanui Wall-McMahon
- Website: waitahanui.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
- Waipahihi School, decile 7 · EQI 451 · 7.9 km
- Hilltop School, decile 9 · EQI 421 · 9.8 km
- Taupo Intermediate, decile 6 · EQI 472 · 10.2 km
- Lake Taupo Christian School, decile 8 · EQI 464 · 10.3 km
- Tauhara College, decile 6 · EQI 486 · 10.3 km
- Tauhara School, decile 3 · EQI 522 · 10.9 km
- Taupo School, decile 5 · EQI 450 · 11.2 km
- Mountview School, decile 3 · EQI 516 · 11.7 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
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Questions, answered briefly
Composite · State · Co-Educational, in Waitahanui.
102 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 527, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
107 State Highway 1, Waitahanui, Taupo. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.