Welcome Bay School
Contributing · State · Welcome Bay, Tauranga
294 students on the roll in Welcome Bay · EQI 469 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 469. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 309 Welcome Bay Road, Welcome Bay, Tauranga, 3112
- Roll: 294 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1979
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.25, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Cohort entry: Yes
- Phone: 07-5441113
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Jamie De La Haye
- Website: welcomebay.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.
Enrolment zone
- Welcome Bay School, in force from 2016-01-28 · 45 km²
Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Tauranga Waldorf School, decile 7 · EQI 413 · 816 m
- Selwyn Ridge School, decile 6 · EQI 449 · 1.4 km
- Maungatapu School, decile 5 · EQI 468 · 2.1 km
- Te Kura o Matapihi, decile 3 · EQI 503 · 3.4 km
- St Mary's Catholic School (Tauranga), decile 8 · EQI 385 · 3.6 km
- Tauranga Intermediate, decile 5 · EQI 475 · 4.0 km
- Tauranga Special School, decile 5 · EQI 499 · 4.0 km
- Te Whakatipuranga (Otumoetai TPU), decile 1 · EQI 569 · 4.1 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
Contributing · State · Co-Educational, in Welcome Bay.
294 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 469, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
1 zone polygon on record. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.