Birkenhead College
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Birkenhead, Auckland
487 students on the roll in Birkenhead · EQI 464.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 464. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 140 Birkdale Road, Birkenhead, Auckland, 0746
- Roll: 487 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1972
- Isolation index 0.17, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 09-4839039
- Email: office@birkenhead.school.nz
- Contact: Craig Waller
- Website: birkenhead.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
- Birkdale Primary School, decile 5 · EQI 473 · 245 m
- Birkdale Intermediate, decile 6 · EQI 455 · 343 m
- Kauri Park School, decile 7 · EQI 384 · 742 m
- Birkdale North School, decile 5 · EQI 427 · 943 m
- Beach Haven School, decile 4 · EQI 434 · 1.1 km
- Verran Primary School, decile 8 · EQI 401 · 1.2 km
- Windy Ridge School, decile 7 · EQI 387 · 1.4 km
- Chelsea School, decile 10 · EQI 352 · 2.0 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
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Co-Educational, in Birkenhead.
487 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 464, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
140 Birkdale Road, Birkenhead, Auckland. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.