Totara School
Full Primary · State · Alma
19 students on the roll · EQI 450.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 450. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 633 Fortification Road, Alma, 9495
- Roll: 19 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1883
- Isolation index 1.32, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 03-4345940
- Email: office@totara.school.nz
- Contact: Matthew Hannagan
- Website: totara.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
- Weston School, decile 8 · EQI 434 · 4.9 km
- Fenwick School, decile 6 · EQI 465 · 5.3 km
- St Joseph's School (Oamaru), decile 6 · EQI 437 · 6.5 km
- Te Pākihi o Maru, decile 4 · EQI 502 · 6.6 km
- Waitaki Girls' High School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 7.0 km
- Maheno School, decile 6 · EQI 430 · 7.2 km
- Kakanui School, decile 1 · EQI 450 · 7.5 km
- Pembroke School (Oamaru), decile 3 · EQI 496 · 8.2 km
Facilities nearby
Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point, libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.
- Totara Hall, Hall · 30 m
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
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Questions, answered briefly
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
19 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 450, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
633 Fortification Road, , Alma. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.