The Catlins Area School
Composite · State · Owaka
127 students on the roll · EQI 470.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 470. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 1 Stuart Street, Owaka, 9535
- Roll: 127 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1858
- Isolation index 2.03, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-4158036
- Email: learn@catlins.school.nz
- Contact: Glenys Hanley
- Website: catlins.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
- Romahapa School, decile 9 · EQI 438 · 12.5 km
- Warepa School, decile 7 · EQI 433 · 20.6 km
- Rosebank School (Balclutha), decile 6 · EQI 465 · 23.5 km
- South Otago High School, decile 6 · EQI 475 · 23.6 km
- Kaitangata School, decile 4 · EQI 496 · 24.2 km
- St Joseph's School (Balclutha), decile 5 · EQI 410 · 24.3 km
- Balclutha School, decile 5 · EQI 481 · 24.5 km
- Stirling School, decile 6 · EQI 469 · 24.5 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
Composite · State · Co-Educational.
127 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 470, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 7.
1 Stuart Street, , Owaka. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.