Amuri Area School
Composite · State · Culverden
355 students on the roll · EQI 444 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 444. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- School Road, Culverden, 7345
- Roll: 355 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1896
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 1.88, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Cohort entry: Yes
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-3158233
- Email: office@amuri.school.nz
- Contact: Matt Barlow
- Website: amuri.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.
Enrolment zone
- Amuri Area School (Year 7-8), in force from 2019-10-14 · 1744 km²
- Amuri Area School (Year 9-15), in force from 2019-10-14 · 4954 km²
- Amuri Area School (Year 1-6), in force from 2019-10-14 · 967 km²
Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Rotherham School, decile 10 · EQI 441 · 11.3 km
- Waiau School, decile 8 · EQI 442 · 20.5 km
- Greta Valley School, decile 5 · EQI 442 · 24.0 km
- Hurunui College, decile 7 · EQI 465 · 24.2 km
- Waikari School, decile 5 · EQI 455 · 25.1 km
- Hanmer Springs School, decile 9 · EQI 426 · 27.7 km
- Omihi School, decile 10 · EQI 435 · 27.9 km
- Waipara School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 32.2 km
The green nearby
Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m, measured to the outline itself, so a school on a big reserve’s edge still counts.
- Culverden & Rutherford Railway Reserves, Reserve · 377 m to its edge
Facilities nearby
Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point, libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.
- Amuri Community Library & Service Centre, Library · 110 m
- Amuri Service Centre, Service centre · 110 m
- Culverden Community Centre, Hall · 126 m
- Culverden Dump Station Toilets, Public toilet · 353 m
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
Composite · State · Co-Educational.
355 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 444, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 8.
3 zone polygons on record. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.