Waituna Creek School
Full Primary · State · Waimate
35 students on the roll · EQI 448.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 448. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 178 Waituna School Road, Waimate, 7978
- Roll: 35 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1879
- Isolation index 1.39, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 03-6897438
- Email: office@waitunacreek.school.nz
- Contact: Moragh Sutherland
- Website: waitunacreek.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 Centennial School, decile 4 · EQI 473 · 3.6 km
- St Patrick's School (Waimate), decile 5 · EQI 408 · 4.5 km
- Waimate Main School, decile 3 · EQI 483 · 4.6 km
- Waimate High School, decile 5 · EQI 481 · 4.8 km
- Waihao Downs School, decile 9 · EQI 442 · 12.1 km
- Makikihi School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 12.7 km
- St Andrew's School (Timaru), decile 7 · EQI 479 · 23.6 km
- Glenavy School, decile 7 · EQI 446 · 24.6 km
Facilities nearby
Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point, libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.
- Waituna Hall, Hall · 289 m
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
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Questions, answered briefly
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
35 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 448, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
178 Waituna School Road, , Waimate. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.