Potaka School
Full Primary · State · Hicks Bay
45 students on the roll · EQI 523.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 523. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 7164 Te Aararoa Road, Hicks Bay, 3199
- Roll: 45 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1929
- Isolation index 3.99, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 06-8644436
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Tina Poi
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
- Te Kura Mana Māori o Whangaparaoa, decile 2 · EQI 519 · 12.8 km
- TKKM o Kawakawa mai Tawhiti, decile 1 · EQI 523 · 13.3 km
- Te Waha O Rerekohu Area School, decile 1 · EQI 555 · 20.8 km
- Tikitiki School, decile 1 · EQI 538 · 34.1 km
- TKKM o Tapere-Nui-A-Whatonga, decile 1 · EQI 532 · 35.6 km
- TKKM o Te Waiu o Ngati Porou, decile 1 · EQI 516 · 38.7 km
- Ngata Memorial College, decile 1 · EQI 560 · 39.0 km
- Hiruharama School, decile 2 · EQI 543 · 40.8 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.
45 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 523, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
7164 Te Aararoa Road, , Hicks Bay. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.