Oroua Downs School
Full Primary · State · Foxton
84 students on the roll · EQI 473.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 473. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- State Highway 1, Foxton, 4891
- Roll: 84 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1903
- Isolation index 0.64, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 06-3299730
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Tanya Zander
- Website: orouadowns.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
- Bainesse School, decile 5 · EQI 485 · 6.2 km
- Glen Oroua School, decile 9 · EQI 415 · 9.1 km
- Tangimoana School, decile 2 · EQI 535 · 10.6 km
- Manawatū College, decile 2 · EQI 528 · 10.9 km
- Foxton School, decile 1 · EQI 547 · 11.0 km
- Coley Street School, decile 2 · EQI 516 · 11.5 km
- St Mary's School (Foxton), decile 3 · EQI 509 · 11.8 km
- Foxton Beach School, decile 5 · EQI 507 · 12.5 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.
84 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 473, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
State Highway 1, , Foxton. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.