Maheno School
Full Primary · State · Maheno
95 students on the roll · EQI 430.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 430. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Short Street, Maheno, 9495
- Roll: 95 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1875
- Isolation index 1.35, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-439 5707
- Email: office@maheno.school.nz
- Contact: Stella Macrae
- Website: maheno.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
- Kakanui School, decile 1 · EQI 450 · 5.1 km
- Totara School, decile 6 · EQI 450 · 7.2 km
- Weston School, decile 8 · EQI 434 · 11.9 km
- Fenwick School, decile 6 · EQI 465 · 12.1 km
- St Joseph's School (Oamaru), decile 6 · EQI 437 · 13.5 km
- Te Pākihi o Maru, decile 4 · EQI 502 · 13.7 km
- Five Forks School, decile 9 · EQI 449 · 13.9 km
- Waitaki Girls' High School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 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.
- Maheno War Memorial, Reserve · 143 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.
- Maheno Hall, Hall · 44 m
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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
95 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 430, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
Maheno War Memorial, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.