Arahoe School

Arahoe School is a co-educational contributing school in Waitakere, within the Auckland Region, operating in the state sector, with 436 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 385. The school has been open since 1958.

With 436 students on roll, Arahoe School is a large school — larger than about 76% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 385, which is well below the national average of 463. A lower Equity Index signals less socio-economic need in the school's community than the national norm. The gap of 78 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Asian at 50.5% and European at 29.7%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.09 (very low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.