College Street Normal School

College Street Normal School is a co-educational contributing school in Palmerston North, within the Manawatū-Whanganui Region, operating in the state sector, with 623 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 409. The school has been open since 1893.

With 623 students on roll, College Street Normal School is a large school — larger than about 87% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 409, 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 54 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 47.6% and Asian at 37%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.04 (very low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.