Waipara School
Full Primary · State · Waipara
33 students on the roll · EQI 478.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 478. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 2 Loffhagen Drive, Waipara, 7447
- Roll: 33 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1917
- Isolation index 1.1, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-3146814
- Email: office@waipara.school.nz
- Contact: Yvonne Blair
- Website: waipara.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
- Omihi School, decile 10 · EQI 435 · 8.2 km
- Broomfield School, decile 8 · EQI 419 · 9.4 km
- Waikari School, decile 5 · EQI 455 · 10.6 km
- Amberley School, decile 7 · EQI 463 · 11.4 km
- Leithfield School Te Kura o Kōwai, decile 8 · EQI 448 · 16.1 km
- Hurunui College, decile 7 · EQI 465 · 17.7 km
- Greta Valley School, decile 5 · EQI 442 · 20.1 km
- Te Waitai Sefton School, decile 7 · EQI 434 · 22.7 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.
- Waipara Memorial Hall, Reserve · 158 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.
- Waipara Memorial Hall, Hall · 191 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.
33 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 478, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
Waipara Memorial Hall, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.