Merrilands School
Contributing · State · New Plymouth
136 students on the roll · EQI 479.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 479. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Kauri Street, New Plymouth, 4312
- Roll: 136 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1960
- Isolation index 0.95, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 06-7588644
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: James Willson
- Website: merrilands.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
- Sacred Heart Girls' College (N Plymouth), decile 8 · EQI 414 · 1.2 km
- New Plymouth Girls' High School, decile 7 · EQI 447 · 1.2 km
- St John Bosco School (New Plymouth), decile 8 · EQI 385 · 1.4 km
- Welbourn School, decile 8 · EQI 425 · 1.4 km
- New Plymouth Boys' High School, decile 7 · EQI 446 · 1.5 km
- Fitzroy School, decile 8 · EQI 422 · 1.7 km
- Highlands Intermediate, decile 7 · EQI 444 · 1.7 km
- Central School Te Kura Waenga O Ngāmotu, decile 8 · EQI 417 · 2.1 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.
136 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 479, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 7.
Kauri Street, , New Plymouth. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.