Makauri School is situated on the outskirts of Gisborne City, 10 minutes from the city centre. The School began as a single classroom in 1886 and is one of the oldest schools in the Gisborne region.
Makauri School today has 190 students in eight classrooms and enjoys the best of being a rural school close to town and the facilities Gisborne has to offer.
The school has the puriri tree as its logo. A puriri tree, planted in the earliest days of the school in the 1800s, stands at the front of the school.