Poolburn School
Full Primary · State · Oturehua
30 students on the roll · EQI 431.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 10. Current Equity Index: 431. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 1017 Ida Valley-Omakau Road, Oturehua, 9387
- Roll: 30 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1897
- Isolation index 2.49, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 03-4474866
- Email: office@poolburn.school.nz
- Contact: Melissa Gare
- Website: sporty.co.nz/poolburn
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
- Omakau School, decile 9 · EQI 449 · 9.0 km
- St Gerard's School (Alexandra), decile 9 · EQI 415 · 26.6 km
- The Terrace School (Alexandra), decile 8 · EQI 445 · 26.8 km
- Dunstan High School, decile 8 · EQI 445 · 27.1 km
- Alexandra Primary School, decile 8 · EQI 447 · 27.4 km
- Clyde School, decile 9 · EQI 420 · 30.2 km
- St John's School (Ranfurly), decile 8 · EQI 395 · 31.4 km
- Maniototo Area School, decile 8 · EQI 470 · 31.7 km
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.
30 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 431, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 10.
1017 Ida Valley-Omakau Road, , Oturehua. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.