Whakamaru School
Full Primary · State · Whakamaru, Mangakino
79 students on the roll in Whakamaru · EQI 494.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 494. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 36 Kaahu Road, Whakamaru, Mangakino, 3492
- Roll: 79 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1959
- Isolation index 1.03, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 07-8828872
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: James White
- Website: whakamaru.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
- Mangakino School, decile 1 · EQI 550 · 7.1 km
- Tirohanga School, decile 7 · EQI 506 · 10.0 km
- Marotiri School, decile 6 · EQI 453 · 13.0 km
- Tainui Full Primary School, decile 2 · EQI 526 · 21.0 km
- Cargill School, decile 2 · EQI 544 · 21.2 km
- TKKM o Te Hiringa, decile 2 · EQI 525 · 21.5 km
- Amisfield School, decile 4 · EQI 508 · 22.2 km
- Strathmore School, decile 1 · EQI 530 · 22.2 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, in Whakamaru.
79 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 494, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
36 Kaahu Road, Whakamaru, Mangakino. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.