Waitara Central School
Contributing · State · Waitara
186 students on the roll · EQI 535.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 535. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 12 Cracroft Street, Waitara, 4346
- Roll: 186 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1858
- Isolation index 0.98, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Small urban area
- Phone: 06-7547716
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Vickie-Ann Kahu-Pukoro
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
- St Joseph's School (Waitara), decile 3 · EQI 510 · 400 m
- Manukorihi Intermediate, decile 3 · EQI 512 · 999 m
- Waitara High School, decile 3 · EQI 524 · 1.3 km
- Waitara East School, decile 2 · EQI 532 · 1.5 km
- Tikorangi School, decile 4 · EQI 464 · 5.2 km
- Huirangi School, decile 4 · EQI 476 · 5.5 km
- Lepperton School, decile 9 · EQI 423 · 6.7 km
- Puketapu School (New Plymouth), decile 4 · EQI 480 · 7.4 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.
186 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 535, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
12 Cracroft Street, , Waitara. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.