Okains Bay School
Full Primary · State · Okains Bay
10 students on the roll · EQI 545.
Welcome to Okains Bay School!Okains Bay School is a unique, rural school. We are located on Banks Peninsula (approximately an hour's drive from... — hail.to/okains-bay-school
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 545. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 1163 Okains Bay Road, Okains Bay, 7583 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: okains-bay — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 10 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1873
- Isolation index 1.71 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 027-3048629
- Email: office@okainsbay.school.nz
- Contact: Colin Hammond
- Website: hail.to/okains-bay-school
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
- Duvauchelle School — decile 6 · EQI 420 · 10.0 km
- Akaroa Area School — decile 8 · EQI 455 · 13.1 km
- Little River School — decile 9 · EQI 423 · 20.8 km
Diamond Harbour School — decile 10 · EQI 412 · 26.9 km
Ko Taku Reo - Deaf Education New Zealand — EQI 516 · 27.0 km- Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 401 · 27.0 km
Sumner School — decile 10 · EQI 382 · 27.3 km- Lyttelton Primary School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 28.3 km
The reports nearby
16 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Vehicles & parking, 14 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
Pothole — 1158 Okains Bay Road, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 11 August 2026
Abandoned Vehicle — 1163 Okains Bay Rd, Canterbury, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 5 July 2026
Abandoned Vehicle — 1163 Okains Bay Rd, Canterbury, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 26 June 2026
Overgrown Vegetation — 1147 Okains Bay Road, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 14 June 2026
Hazard — vehicle — 1162 Okains Bay Rd, Canterbury, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 28 January 2026
Hazard — vehicle — 1162 Okains Bay Rd, Canterbury, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 13 January 2026
Hazard — vehicle — 1162 Okains Bay Rd, Canterbury, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 10 January 2026
Overgrown Vegetation — 1147 Okains Bay Road, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 20 November 2025
Overgrown Vegetation — 1163 Okains Bay Rd, Canterbury, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 20 November 2025
Roads - General — 1158–1176 Okains Bay Rd, Canterbury, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 7 November 2025
Facility - General Request — 1147 Okains Bay Rd, Canterbury, Okains Bay 7583, New Zealand · 15 August 2025
General Request — Okains Bay Hall, Okains Bay Canterbury , New Zealand · 17 April 2025
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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
10 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 545 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
1163 Okains Bay Road — , Okains Bay. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.