Turakina School
Full Primary · State · Turakina
33 students on the roll · EQI 508.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 508. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- State Highway 3, Turakina, 4581
- Roll: 33 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1858
- Isolation index 0.52, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 06-3273864
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Leigh McKay
- Website: sites.google.com/turakina.school.nz/turakinaprimaryschool/home
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
- Whare Kura Morehu ō Ratana, decile 2 · EQI 534 · 3.7 km
- Whangaehu School, decile 3 · EQI 530 · 5.9 km
- South Makirikiri School, decile 7 · EQI 444 · 9.0 km
- Fordell School, decile 7 · EQI 455 · 10.1 km
- Huntley School (Marton), private, not rated · 12.4 km
- James Cook School, decile 2 · EQI 499 · 13.8 km
- Kaitoke School (Wanganui), decile 5 · EQI 453 · 13.9 km
- St Matthew's School (Marton), decile 2 · EQI 484 · 14.0 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.
33 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 508, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 3.
State Highway 3, , Turakina. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.