Waimate Centennial School
Contributing · State · Waimate
138 students on the roll · EQI 473.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 473. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 5 Hughes Street, Waimate, 7924
- Roll: 138 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1955
- Isolation index 1.39, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Small urban area
- Phone: 03-6898295
- Email: office@centennial.school.nz
- Contact: Mandy Woods
- Website: centennial.ultranet.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
- Waimate Main School, decile 3 · EQI 483 · 1.0 km
- St Patrick's School (Waimate), decile 5 · EQI 408 · 1.1 km
- Waimate High School, decile 5 · EQI 481 · 1.1 km
- Waituna Creek School, decile 6 · EQI 448 · 3.6 km
- Waihao Downs School, decile 9 · EQI 442 · 11.1 km
- Makikihi School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 13.6 km
- Glenavy School, decile 7 · EQI 446 · 21.1 km
- St Andrew's School (Timaru), decile 7 · EQI 479 · 25.3 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.
- Belt Street Park · 189 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.
- Town Belt, Monument · 197 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
Contributing · State · Co-Educational.
138 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 473, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
Belt Street Park, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.