Waitaki Boys' High School
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Oamaru
418 students on the roll · EQI 477.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 477. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Waitaki Avenue, Oamaru, 9444
- Roll: 418 (September 2026)
- Boys School
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1883
- Isolation index 1.23, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Boarding: Yes
- Setting: Medium urban area
- Phone: 03-4370529
- Email: admin@waitakibhs.school.nz
- Contact: Darryl Paterson
- Website: waitakibhs.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
- Oamaru Intermediate, decile 5 · EQI 477 · 762 m
- Pembroke School (Oamaru), decile 3 · EQI 496 · 879 m
- St Kevins College (Oamaru), decile 7 · EQI 447 · 1.6 km
- Waitaki Girls' High School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 2.0 km
- Te Pākihi o Maru, decile 4 · EQI 502 · 2.4 km
- St Joseph's School (Oamaru), decile 6 · EQI 437 · 2.5 km
- Ardgowan School, decile 6 · EQI 453 · 2.7 km
- Fenwick School, decile 6 · EQI 465 · 4.1 km
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
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Boys School.
418 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 477, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
Waitaki Avenue, , Oamaru. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.