Petone Central School
Full Primary · State · Petone, Lower Hutt
203 students on the roll in Petone · EQI 447 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 447. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 16 Britannia Street, Petone, Lower Hutt, 5046
- Roll: 203 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1878
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.11, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 04-5687974
- Email: office@petone-central.school.nz
- Contact: Katarina Bennett
- Website: petonecentral.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
- Sacred Heart School (Petone), decile 7 · EQI 415 · 91 m
- Encompass Education Hub (Proposed opening date: 2027-02-03), not rated · 505 m
- Wilford School, decile 6 · EQI 428 · 880 m
- Te Ara Whanui Kura Kaupapa Māori o ngā Kōhanga Reo o Te Awa Kairangi, decile 3 · EQI 517 · 999 m
- Hutt Valley Activity Centre, EQI 569 · 1.2 km
- Korokoro School, decile 10 · EQI 375 · 1.4 km
- Hutt Central School, decile 8 · EQI 396 · 1.6 km
- Maungaraki School, decile 10 · EQI 379 · 1.6 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
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Questions, answered briefly
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational, in Petone.
203 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 447, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
An enrolment scheme on record. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.