St Joseph's School (Oamaru)
Full Primary · State : Integrated · Oamaru
149 students on the roll · EQI 437.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 437. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 36 Usk Street, Oamaru, 9400
- Roll: 149 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1882
- Isolation index 1.21, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Medium urban area
- Phone: 03-434 8856
- Email: principal@stjoseph.school.nz
- Contact: Sara Hogan-Jones
- Website: stjoseph.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
- Te Pākihi o Maru, decile 4 · EQI 502 · 121 m
- Waitaki Girls' High School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 500 m
- Fenwick School, decile 6 · EQI 465 · 1.6 km
- Pembroke School (Oamaru), decile 3 · EQI 496 · 1.9 km
- Oamaru Intermediate, decile 5 · EQI 477 · 2.2 km
- Waitaki Boys' High School, decile 6 · EQI 477 · 2.5 km
- St Kevins College (Oamaru), decile 7 · EQI 447 · 3.2 km
- Ardgowan School, decile 6 · EQI 453 · 3.5 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.
- Oamaru North School · 97 m to its edge
- Aln Street Terrace · 222 m to its edge
- Glen Warren Reserve, Reserve · 374 m to its edge
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 : Integrated · Co-Educational.
149 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 437, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
Oamaru North School, Aln Street Terrace, Glen Warren Reserve, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.