Kakanui School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 450. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• Fyfe Place, Kakanui, 9495
• Roll: 38 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1870
• Isolation index 1.37, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Setting: Rural settlement
• Phone: 03-4395837
• Email: office@kakanui.school.nz
• Contact: Ann Roughan
• Website: principal1851.wic.com/kakanui.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

• Maheno School, decile 6 · EQI 430 · 5.1 km
• Totara School, decile 6 · EQI 450 · 7.5 km
• Fenwick School, decile 6 · EQI 465 · 10.5 km
• St Joseph's School (Oamaru), decile 6 · EQI 437 · 12.2 km
• Weston School, decile 8 · EQI 434 · 12.2 km
• Te Pākihi o Maru, decile 4 · EQI 502 · 12.3 km
• Waitaki Girls' High School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 12.7 km
• Pembroke School (Oamaru), decile 3 · EQI 496 · 14.0 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.

• Kakanui Memorial Reserve, Reserve · 98 m to its edge
• Kakanui Esplanade Reserve, Reserve · 140 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.

• Kakanui Esplanade Toilets, Public toilet · 374 m