Te Wharekura o Te Kaokaoroa o Patetere
Composite · State · Putaruru
289 students on the roll · EQI 523.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 523. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 117 Buckland Street, Putaruru, 3411
- Roll: 289 (October 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 2006
- Isolation index 0.91, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Instruction: All students taught in te reo Māori
- Setting: Small urban area
- Phone: 07-8833780
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact: Keith Silveira
- Website: kaokaoroa.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
- St Mary's Catholic School (Putāruru), decile 5 · EQI 455 · 558 m
- Putāruru College, decile 3 · EQI 518 · 1.2 km
- Putāruru Primary School, decile 2 · EQI 539 · 1.7 km
- Lichfield School, decile 5 · EQI 457 · 7.6 km
- Tirau Primary School, decile 4 · EQI 477 · 7.8 km
- Kuranui Primary School, decile 8 · EQI 472 · 12.8 km
- Te Waotu School, decile 7 · EQI 448 · 13.4 km
- Horahora School (Cambridge), decile 7 · EQI 441 · 14.8 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 November 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Composite · State · Co-Educational.
289 on the roll at October 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 523, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
117 Buckland Street, , Putaruru. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.