Te Kura Waenga O Rutherford | Rutherford Intermediate School
Intermediate · State · Tawhero, Whanganui
143 students on the roll in Tawhero · EQI 539.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 539. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 32 Toi Street, Tawhero, Whanganui, 4501
- Roll: 143 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1963
- Isolation index 0.36, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 06-3490022
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Hayden Hepburn
- Website: rutherford.ac.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
- Arahunga School, decile 3 · EQI 527 · 211 m
- Tawhero School, decile 1 · EQI 547 · 406 m
- St Marcellin School (Wanganui), decile 2 · EQI 504 · 497 m
- St Dominic's College, private, not rated · 650 m
- St Anthony's School (Wanganui), private, not rated · 728 m
- Carlton School, decile 3 · EQI 507 · 990 m
- Whanganui High School, decile 4 · EQI 482 · 1.0 km
- Gonville School, decile 2 · EQI 513 · 1.4 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
Intermediate · State · Co-Educational, in Tawhero.
143 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 539, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 1.
32 Toi Street, Tawhero, Whanganui. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.