Kōwhai School
Specialist School · State · Akina, Hastings
131 students on the roll in Akina · EQI 517.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 517. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 407 Hastings St South, Akina, Hastings, 4156
- Roll: 131 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1975
- Isolation index 0.03, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 06-8783506
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Angie Dent (Acting)
- Website: kowhaispecial.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
- Hastings Central School, decile 2 · EQI 522 · 98 m
- Akina School/ Activity Centre, EQI 569 · 172 m
- St Joseph's School (Hastings), decile 3 · EQI 418 · 412 m
- Hastings Intermediate, decile 3 · EQI 509 · 416 m
- St Matthew's Primary School (Hastings), decile 4 · EQI 436 · 605 m
- Hastings Boys' High School, decile 2 · EQI 502 · 700 m
- Taikura Rudolf Steiner School, decile 6 · EQI 437 · 1.2 km
- Ebbett Park School, decile 1 · EQI 533 · 1.3 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
Specialist School · State · Co-Educational, in Akina.
131 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 517, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
407 Hastings St South, Akina, Hastings. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.