Ilam School

Ilam School is a co-educational contributing school in Christchurch, within the Canterbury Region, operating in the state sector, with 411 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 394. The school has been open since 1950.

With 411 students on roll, Ilam School is a large school — larger than about 74% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 394, 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 69 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Asian at 54.3% and European at 28.4%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.2 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.