East Otago High School
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Palmerston
196 students on the roll · EQI 488.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 488. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Stour Street, Palmerston, 9443
- Roll: 196 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1969
- Isolation index 1.12, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-4651513
- Email: office@eohs.school.nz
- Contact: Helen Newcombe
- Website: eohs.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
- Palmerston School, decile 6 · EQI 461 · 285 m
- Waikouaiti School, decile 6 · EQI 440 · 13.6 km
- Hampden School, decile 4 · EQI 489 · 18.6 km
- Karitane School, decile 6 · EQI 463 · 19.1 km
- Macraes Moonlight School, decile 10 · EQI 461 · 25.3 km
- Warrington School, decile 8 · EQI 397 · 27.4 km
- Waitati School, decile 9 · EQI 421 · 32.8 km
- Pūrākaunui School, decile 10 · EQI 443 · 33.4 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.
- Palmerston Railway Reserve · 193 m to its edge
- Palmerston Railway Embankment · 214 m to its edge
- Ross Park · 324 m to its edge
- Centennial Park · 349 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
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Co-Educational.
196 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 488, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
Palmerston Railway Reserve, Palmerston Railway Embankment, Ross Park and 1 more, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.