Waikari School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 455. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 23 Princes Street, Waikari, 7420
• Roll: 36 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1882
• Isolation index 1.36, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Setting: Rural settlement
• Phone: 03-3144250
• Email: office@waikari.school.nz
• Contact: Sam Winterbourne (Acting)
• Website: waikari.school.nz/WebSpace/30

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

• Hurunui College, decile 7 · EQI 465 · 7.2 km
• Waipara School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 10.6 km
• Omihi School, decile 10 · EQI 435 · 13.8 km
• Broomfield School, decile 8 · EQI 419 · 16.5 km
• Amberley School, decile 7 · EQI 463 · 20.4 km
• Greta Valley School, decile 5 · EQI 442 · 22.6 km
• Amuri Area School, decile 8 · EQI 444 · 25.1 km
• Leithfield School Te Kura o Kōwai, decile 8 · EQI 448 · 25.6 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.

• Waikari Recreation Reserve, Reserve · 51 m to its edge
• Stocks Reserve, Reserve · 375 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.

• Waikari Camping Ground, 22 Princes Street, Camping site · 70 m
• Waikari Camping Ground, 22 Princes Street, Camper sewage disposal · 149 m
• Waikari Public Toilets, Public toilet · 155 m