Palmerston School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 6. 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

• Stromness Street, Palmerston, 9430
• Roll: 103 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1865
• Isolation index 1.11, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Setting: Rural settlement
• Phone: 03-4651361
• Email: office@palmerston.school.nz
• Contact: Kerry Forse
• Website: palmerston.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

• East Otago High School, decile 6 · EQI 488 · 285 m
• Waikouaiti School, decile 6 · EQI 440 · 13.3 km
• Karitane School, decile 6 · EQI 463 · 18.8 km
• Hampden School, decile 4 · EQI 489 · 18.9 km
• Macraes Moonlight School, decile 10 · EQI 461 · 25.3 km
• Warrington School, decile 8 · EQI 397 · 27.2 km
• Waitati School, decile 9 · EQI 421 · 32.5 km
• Pūrākaunui School, decile 10 · EQI 443 · 33.1 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.

• Centennial Park · 97 m to its edge
• Palmerston Railway Reserve · 104 m to its edge
• Palmerston Railway Embankment · 133 m to its edge
• Ross Park · 153 m to its edge