Te Kura Amorangi o Whakawatea
Full Primary · State · Melville, Hamilton
125 students on the roll in Melville · EQI 520.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 520. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 132 Saxbys Road, Melville, Hamilton, 3245
- Roll: 125 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1995
- Isolation index 0.14, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: All students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 07-8433499
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Susanne Simmons-Kopa
- Website: whakawatea.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
- Southcity Christian School, decile 5 · EQI 380 · 340 m
- Deanwell School, decile 3 · EQI 511 · 602 m
- Mangakōtukutuku College, EQI 529 · 1.2 km
- Melville Primary School, decile 2 · EQI 537 · 1.5 km
- St Pius X Catholic School (Melville), decile 3 · EQI 378 · 1.9 km
- Glenview School (Hamilton), decile 5 · EQI 469 · 1.9 km
- Hamilton West School, decile 5 · EQI 433 · 3.0 km
- Rhode Street School, decile 2 · EQI 537 · 3.3 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 Melville.
125 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 520, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
132 Saxbys Road, Melville, Hamilton. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.