Te Kura o Wairau
Contributing · State · Highbury, Palmerston North
152 students on the roll in Highbury · EQI 541.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 541. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 45 Somerset Crescent, Highbury, Palmerston North, 4442
- Roll: 152 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1963
- Isolation index 0.11, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 06-3543274
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Teena Johnson
- Website: tekuraowairau.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
- Cloverlea School, decile 3 · EQI 494 · 854 m
- Takaro School, decile 1 · EQI 534 · 899 m
- Monrad - Te Kura Waenga o Tirohanga, decile 3 · EQI 517 · 1.3 km
- Our Lady of Lourdes School (P North), decile 5 · EQI 422 · 1.4 km
- Central Normal School, decile 4 · EQI 491 · 1.6 km
- Te Ohanui (Palmerston North Specialist School) (Proposed opening date: 2027-07-19), not rated · 1.8 km
- Queen Elizabeth College, decile 3 · EQI 556 · 1.8 km
- Palmerston North Adventist Christian School, decile 3 · EQI 433 · 2.1 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
Contributing · State · Co-Educational, in Highbury.
152 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 541, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 1.
45 Somerset Crescent, Highbury, Palmerston North. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.