Russell School (Porirua East)
Contributing · State · Cannons Creek, Porirua
112 students on the roll in Cannons Creek · EQI 509.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 1. 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
- 18 Fantame Street, Cannons Creek, Porirua, 5024
- Roll: 112 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1858
- Isolation index 0.13, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: Some students taught in a Pacific language
- Setting: Large urban area
- Phone: 04-2357956
- Email: admin@russellschool.school.nz
- Contact: Michelle Thwaites
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
- Maraeroa School, decile 1 · EQI 515 · 707 m
- Natone Park School, decile 1 · EQI 525 · 737 m
- Porirua College, decile 1 · EQI 529 · 793 m
- Corinna School, decile 1 · EQI 522 · 848 m
- Cannons Creek School, decile 1 · EQI 521 · 899 m
- Brandon Intermediate, decile 1 · EQI 523 · 988 m
- Holy Family School (Porirua), decile 1 · EQI 487 · 1.2 km
- Windley School, decile 1 · EQI 529 · 1.3 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 Cannons Creek.
112 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 509, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 1.
18 Fantame Street, Cannons Creek, Porirua. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.