Waitaki Valley School
Full Primary · State · Kurow
102 students on the roll · EQI 440.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 440. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Settlement Road, Kurow, 9435
- Roll: 102 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1882
- Isolation index 2.14, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-4360660
- Email: office@waitakivalley.school.nz
- Contact: Di Murphy
- Website: waitakivalley.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
- Duntroon School, decile 9 · EQI 423 · 21.6 km
- Waihao Downs School, decile 9 · EQI 442 · 36.9 km
- Five Forks School, decile 9 · EQI 449 · 41.9 km
- Waituna Creek School, decile 6 · EQI 448 · 43.7 km
- Waimate Centennial School, decile 4 · EQI 473 · 45.4 km
- Waimate Main School, decile 3 · EQI 483 · 46.0 km
- Waimate High School, decile 5 · EQI 481 · 46.0 km
- St Patrick's School (Waimate), decile 5 · EQI 408 · 46.4 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.
- Kurow Domain, Sports ground · 154 m to its edge
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.
102 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 440, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 8.
Kurow Domain, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.