Porirua School
Contributing · State · Elsdon, Porirua
141 students on the roll in Elsdon · EQI 509.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 509. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Awarua Street, Elsdon, Porirua, 5022
- Roll: 141 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1863
- Isolation index 0.03, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 04-2377460
- Email: office@porirua.school.nz
- Contact: Vanessa Hendry
- Website: porirua.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
- Mana College, decile 2 · EQI 509 · 408 m
- Mahinawa Specialist School and Resource Centre, decile 5 · EQI 510 · 529 m
- Kura Toa (Proposed opening date: 2027-02-01), not rated · 574 m
- Bishop Viard College, decile 1 · EQI 505 · 1.2 km
- Ngati Toa School, decile 3 · EQI 495 · 1.4 km
- Porirua Activity Centre, EQI 569 · 1.6 km
- Porirua East School, decile 3 · EQI 500 · 1.6 km
- Aotea College, decile 5 · EQI 441 · 1.7 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
Contributing · State · Co-Educational, in Elsdon.
141 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 509, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
Awarua Street, Elsdon, Porirua. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.