Mahinawa Specialist School and Resource Centre

Mahinawa Specialist School and Resource Centre is a co-educational specialist school school in Porirua, within the Wellington Region, operating in the state sector, with 154 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 510. The school has been open since 1968.

With 154 students on roll, Mahinawa Specialist School and Resource Centre is a medium-sized school — larger than about 38% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 510, 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 47 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 46.5% and Pasifika at 37.7%. 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.