Waitara East School
Contributing · State · Waitara
204 students on the roll · EQI 532.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 532. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Richmond Street, Waitara, 4346
- Roll: 204 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1954
- Isolation index 1, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Small urban area
- Phone: 06-7548334
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Perrie Topia
- Website: waitaraeast.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
- Waitara High School, decile 3 · EQI 524 · 311 m
- Manukorihi Intermediate, decile 3 · EQI 512 · 642 m
- Waitara Central School, decile 2 · EQI 535 · 1.5 km
- St Joseph's School (Waitara), decile 3 · EQI 510 · 1.9 km
- Tikorangi School, decile 4 · EQI 464 · 5.4 km
- Huirangi School, decile 4 · EQI 476 · 6.4 km
- Lepperton School, decile 9 · EQI 423 · 8.1 km
- Puketapu School (New Plymouth), decile 4 · EQI 480 · 8.7 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.
204 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 532, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
Richmond Street, , Waitara. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.