Pongaroa School
Full Primary · State · Pongaroa
50 students on the roll · EQI 485.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 485. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 9 Makomako Street, Pongaroa, 4944
- Roll: 50 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1897
- Isolation index 1.57, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 06-3762703
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Sam Baxter
- Website: pongaroa.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
- Makuri School, decile 6 · EQI 440 · 15.3 km
- Weber School, decile 8 · EQI 447 · 18.5 km
- Kumeroa School, decile 8 · EQI 461 · 28.5 km
- St Anthony's School (Pahiatua), decile 5 · EQI 441 · 31.1 km
- Mangatainoka School, decile 4 · EQI 509 · 31.2 km
- Pahiatua School, decile 4 · EQI 478 · 31.7 km
- Tararua College, decile 3 · EQI 510 · 31.8 km
- Alfredton School, decile 10 · EQI 434 · 32.4 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 November 2026.
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Questions, answered briefly
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
50 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 485, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
9 Makomako Street, , Pongaroa. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.