Whareorino School
Full Primary · State · Awakino, North Taranaki
8 students on the roll in Awakino · EQI 525.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 9. Current Equity Index: 525. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 8 Waikawau Beach Road, Awakino, North Taranaki, 4350
- Roll: 8 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1858
- Isolation index 2.43, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 06-752 9850
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Lisa Garrod (Acting)
- Website: whareorino.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
- Mokau School, decile 6 · EQI 505 · 25.6 km
- Āria School, decile 5 · EQI 461 · 28.5 km
- Piopio College, decile 5 · EQI 499 · 29.1 km
- Piopio Primary School, decile 5 · EQI 460 · 29.2 km
- Piripiri School, decile 5 · EQI 490 · 29.6 km
- Te Kura o Tahaaroa, decile 5 · EQI 510 · 36.2 km
- Kinohaku School, decile 4 · EQI 526 · 36.9 km
- Te Wharekura o Maniapoto, decile 3 · EQI 527 · 41.8 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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational, in Awakino.
8 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 525, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 9.
8 Waikawau Beach Road, Awakino, North Taranaki. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.