Arahunga School
Specialist School · State · Tawhero, Whanganui
125 students on the roll in Tawhero · EQI 527.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 527. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 53 Konini Street, Tawhero, Whanganui, 4501
- Roll: 125 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1971
- Isolation index 0.36, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 0800-532 4973
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Shirley Wisnewski
- Website: arahunga.co.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
- Te Kura Waenga O Rutherford | Rutherford Intermediate School, decile 1 · EQI 539 · 211 m
- Tawhero School, decile 1 · EQI 547 · 614 m
- St Dominic's College, private, not rated · 685 m
- St Marcellin School (Wanganui), decile 2 · EQI 504 · 698 m
- St Anthony's School (Wanganui), private, not rated · 732 m
- Carlton School, decile 3 · EQI 507 · 822 m
- Whanganui High School, decile 4 · EQI 482 · 861 m
- Gonville School, decile 2 · EQI 513 · 1.3 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
Specialist School · State · Co-Educational, in Tawhero.
125 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 527, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 3.
53 Konini Street, Tawhero, Whanganui. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.