Kairanga School
Full Primary · State · Palmerston North
153 students on the roll · EQI 449 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 449. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 1099 Kairanga-Bunnythorpe Road, Palmerston North, 4475
- Roll: 153 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1888
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.23, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 06-3290824
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Richard Lawton
- Website: kairanga.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.
Enrolment zone
- Kairanga School, in force from 2016-11-30 · 55 km²
Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Longburn School, decile 4 · EQI 489 · 4.2 km
- Cloverlea School, decile 3 · EQI 494 · 4.3 km
- Te Kura o Wairau, decile 1 · EQI 541 · 4.4 km
- Newbury School, decile 8 · EQI 445 · 4.8 km
- Longburn Adventist College, decile 5 · EQI 474 · 5.0 km
- Takaro School, decile 1 · EQI 534 · 5.0 km
- Monrad - Te Kura Waenga o Tirohanga, decile 3 · EQI 517 · 5.3 km
- Awapuni School (P North), decile 2 · EQI 531 · 5.4 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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
153 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 449, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 8.
1 zone polygon on record. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.