Mahinawa Specialist School and Resource Centre
Specialist School · State · Porirua
154 students on the roll · EQI 510.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 510. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 1b Takapuwahia Drive, Porirua, 5240
- Roll: 154 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1968
- Isolation index 0.04, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 04-2384314
- Email: reception@mahinawa.school.nz
- Contact: Sue McLean
- Website: schoolground.co.nz/kapimana
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
- Mana College, decile 2 · EQI 509 · 124 m
- Porirua School, decile 2 · EQI 509 · 529 m
- Kura Toa (Proposed opening date: 2027-02-01), not rated · 766 m
- Ngati Toa School, decile 3 · EQI 495 · 1.2 km
- Bishop Viard College, decile 1 · EQI 505 · 1.7 km
- Titahi Bay Intermediate, decile 4 · EQI 504 · 1.8 km
- St Pius X School (Titahi Bay), decile 4 · EQI 477 · 1.8 km
- Titahi Bay School, decile 4 · EQI 459 · 1.9 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Specialist School · State · Co-Educational.
154 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 510, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
1b Takapuwahia Drive, , Porirua. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.