Cosgrove School

Cosgrove School is a co-educational contributing school in Papakura, within the Auckland Region, operating in the state sector, with 638 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 519. The school has been open since 1959.

With 638 students on roll, Cosgrove School is a large school — larger than about 88% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 519, which is above the national average of 463. A higher Equity Index signals greater socio-economic need in the school's community — schools in this band receive more targeted government funding and support. The gap of 56 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 54.5% and Asian at 28.1%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.39 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.