Macraes Moonlight School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 10. Current Equity Index: 461. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 6 Hyde Street, Macraes Flat, Palmerston, 9483
• Roll: 14 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1868
• Isolation index 1.78, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Setting: Rural other
• Phone: 03-4652420
• Email: officemms@macraesmoonlight.school.nz
• Contact: Amy Maw (Acting)
• Website: macraes.nz/community/macraes-school

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 · 25.3 km
• East Otago High School, decile 6 · EQI 488 · 25.3 km
• Strath Taieri School, decile 5 · EQI 432 · 27.8 km
• Waikouaiti School, decile 6 · EQI 440 · 30.6 km
• Hampden School, decile 4 · EQI 489 · 30.9 km
• Karitane School, decile 6 · EQI 463 · 34.2 km
• St John's School (Ranfurly), decile 8 · EQI 395 · 37.8 km
• Maniototo Area School, decile 8 · EQI 470 · 38.3 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.

• Macraes Domain, Sports ground · 39 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.

• Macraes Hall, Hall · 149 m
• Macraes Old Cemetery, Cemetery · 313 m