Te Kura o Tuahiwi
Full Primary · State · Kaiapoi
192 students on the roll · EQI 498.
Piki mai, kake mai!Aroha ki te tangata, te tuahiwi ki te whai ao - " Love for our people, at the ridge and beyond!"Hei ngā tūwaewae, ngā manuhiri... — tuahiwi.school.nz
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 498. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 206 Tuahiwi Road, Kaiapoi, 7691
- Roll: 192 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1862
- Isolation index 0.43, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: All students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 03-3138521
- Email: office@tuahiwi.school.nz
- Contact: Dot Singh
- Website: tuahiwi.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
- Woodend School, decile 8 · EQI 453 · 2.1 km
Southbrook School, decile 7 · EQI 474 · 3.8 km
Rangiora New Life School, decile 9 · EQI 434 · 4.0 km- Pegasus Bay School, decile 10 · EQI 422 · 4.5 km
- Kaiapoi North School, decile 7 · EQI 461 · 4.9 km
- St Joseph's School (Rangiora), decile 9 · EQI 420 · 4.9 km
- Kaiapoi Borough School, decile 5 · EQI 490 · 5.0 km
Te Matauru Primary, EQI 445 · 5.3 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.
- Tuahiwi Reserve · 26 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.
- Public toilet, 196 Tuahiwi Road, Public toilet · 33 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.
192 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 498, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
Tuahiwi Reserve, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.