Muriwai School
Full Primary · State · Muriwai, Gisborne
58 students on the roll in Muriwai · EQI 521.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 521. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 1684 Wharerata Road, Muriwai, Gisborne, 4072
- Roll: 58 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1858
- Isolation index 1.08, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 06-8628765
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Pat Ross (Acting)
- Website: muriwai.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
- Manutuke School, decile 3 · EQI 522 · 8.6 km
- Makaraka School, decile 5 · EQI 444 · 12.2 km
- Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hawaiki Hou, EQI 555 · 12.5 km
- Awapuni School (Gisborne), decile 3 · EQI 499 · 12.6 km
- Elgin School, decile 1 · EQI 562 · 12.9 km
- Gisborne Intermediate, decile 4 · EQI 486 · 13.1 km
- Tūranga Tangata Rite, EQI 569 · 13.1 km
- Gisborne Specialist School (Proposed opening date: 2028-01-01), not rated · 13.2 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, in Muriwai.
58 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 521, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 1.
1684 Wharerata Road, Muriwai, Gisborne. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.