Te Waitai Sefton School
Full Primary · State · Sefton
131 students on the roll · EQI 434 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Mission StatementSefton School is committed to providing a positive learning environment in which students strive for excellence and fully develop... — sefton.school.nz
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 434. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 603 Upper Sefton Road, Sefton, 7445
- Roll: 131 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1884
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.61, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-3129755
- Email: office@sefton.school.nz
- Contact: Heidi Moeller
- Website: sefton.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
- Te Waitai Sefton School, in force from 2026-01-01 · 76 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
- Ashley Rakahuri School, decile 10 · EQI 444 · 6.9 km
- Leithfield School Te Kura o Kōwai, decile 8 · EQI 448 · 7.7 km
- Pegasus Bay School, decile 10 · EQI 422 · 7.7 km
- Rangiora High School, decile 9 · EQI 454 · 8.3 km
- Woodend School, decile 8 · EQI 453 · 8.7 km
- St Joseph's School (Rangiora), decile 9 · EQI 420 · 9.2 km
- Rangiora Borough School, decile 7 · EQI 463 · 9.3 km
- Tūtira Ashgrove School, decile 9 · EQI 442 · 9.5 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.
- Sefton Domain, Sports ground · 117 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.
- Cenotaph, Monument · 297 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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
131 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 434, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 7.
1 zone polygon on record. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.