Francis Douglas Memorial College

Francis Douglas Memorial College is a boys school secondary (year 7-15) school in New Plymouth, within the Taranaki Region, operating in the state : integrated sector, with 779 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 418. The school has been open since 1959.

With 779 students on roll, Francis Douglas Memorial College is a very large school — larger than about 92% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 418, 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 45 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

83.1% of students identify as European, so the school has a strongly homogeneous roll. Students of Asian descent make up 11.9%.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.98 (high isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.