Tawhero School
Contributing · State · Whanganui
171 students on the roll · EQI 547.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 547. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Totara Street, Whanganui, 4501
- Roll: 171 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1926
- Isolation index 0.37, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 06-349 0499
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Karleen Marshall
- Website: tawhero.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
- St Marcellin School (Wanganui), decile 2 · EQI 504 · 120 m
- Te Kura Waenga O Rutherford | Rutherford Intermediate School, decile 1 · EQI 539 · 406 m
- Arahunga School, decile 3 · EQI 527 · 614 m
- St Dominic's College, private, not rated · 697 m
- St Anthony's School (Wanganui), private, not rated · 812 m
- Te Kura o Kokohuia, decile 1 · EQI 532 · 1.3 km
- Carlton School, decile 3 · EQI 507 · 1.3 km
- Whanganui High School, decile 4 · EQI 482 · 1.4 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
Contributing · State · Co-Educational.
171 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 547, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 1.
Totara Street, , Whanganui. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.