Elgin School

Elgin School is a co-educational contributing school in Gisborne, within the Gisborne Region, operating in the state sector, with 42 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 562. The school has been open since 1955.

With 42 students on roll, Elgin School is a very small school — larger than about 13% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 562, which is well 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 99 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 53.8% and Pasifika at 30.8%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.86 (high isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.