Waimate High School
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Waimate
291 students on the roll · EQI 481.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 481. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Paul Street, Waimate, 7924
- Roll: 291 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1929
- Isolation index 1.38, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Small urban area
- Phone: 03-6898920
- Email: office@waimate-high.school.nz
- Contact: Andrew Jones
- Website: waimatehigh.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 · 136 m
- St Patrick's School (Waimate), decile 5 · EQI 408 · 783 m
- Waimate Centennial School, decile 4 · EQI 473 · 1.1 km
- Waituna Creek School, decile 6 · EQI 448 · 4.8 km
- Waihao Downs School, decile 9 · EQI 442 · 11.2 km
- Makikihi School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 13.9 km
- Glenavy School, decile 7 · EQI 446 · 20.1 km
- St Andrew's School (Timaru), decile 7 · EQI 479 · 25.8 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.
- Boland Park · 181 m to its edge
- Seddon Square · 181 m to its edge
- Stadium Grounds · 193 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.
- Waimate Highland Pipe Band Hall, Hall · 121 m
- Waimate Event Centre, Recreation centre · 237 m
- Margaret B Cruickshank Md, Monument · 290 m
- Car Park, 105 Queen Street, Waimate, Car park · 296 m
- Waimate District Council, Council office · 315 m
- Waimate Hospital, Monument · 315 m
- Boer War Memorial, Victoria Terrace, Monument · 316 m
- Public Library, Library · 319 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
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Co-Educational.
291 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 481, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
Boland Park, Seddon Square, Stadium Grounds, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.