Waitaki Girls' High School

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

• Trent Street, Oamaru, 9444
• Roll: 399 (September 2026)
• Girls School
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1887
• Isolation index 1.21, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Boarding: Yes
• Setting: Medium urban area
• Phone: 03-4348429
• Email: office@waitakigirlshigh.school.nz
• Contact: Sarah Hay
• Website: waitakigirlshigh.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

• Te Pākihi o Maru, decile 4 · EQI 502 · 380 m
• St Joseph's School (Oamaru), decile 6 · EQI 437 · 500 m
• Pembroke School (Oamaru), decile 3 · EQI 496 · 1.4 km
• Oamaru Intermediate, decile 5 · EQI 477 · 1.7 km
• Waitaki Boys' High School, decile 6 · EQI 477 · 2.0 km
• Fenwick School, decile 6 · EQI 465 · 2.1 km
• St Kevins College (Oamaru), decile 7 · EQI 447 · 2.8 km
• Ardgowan School, decile 6 · EQI 453 · 3.1 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.

• Thames Street Median Strip · 86 m to its edge
• Orana Park · 219 m to its edge
• Oamaru North School · 285 m to its edge
• Glen Warren Reserve, Reserve · 309 m to its edge