Waikirikiri School
Full Primary · State · Kaiti, Gisborne
217 students on the roll in Kaiti · EQI 559.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 559. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 7 Pickering Street, Kaiti, Gisborne, 4041
- Roll: 217 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1967
- Isolation index 0.88, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: All students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 06-8688297
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Yolanda Julies
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
- Kaiti School, decile 1 · EQI 535 · 1.0 km
- Ilminster Intermediate, decile 1 · EQI 508 · 1.1 km
- Te Wharau School (Gisborne), decile 2 · EQI 514 · 1.4 km
- Wainui Beach School, decile 7 · EQI 401 · 1.9 km
- Tūranga Tangata Rite, EQI 569 · 3.1 km
- Gisborne Central School, decile 6 · EQI 430 · 3.2 km
- Turanganui-A-Kiwa Activity Centre, EQI 569 · 3.5 km
- Awapuni School (Gisborne), decile 3 · EQI 499 · 4.1 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, in Kaiti.
217 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 559, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 1.
7 Pickering Street, Kaiti, Gisborne. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.