Merrin School Ngā Whetū Kohara

Merrin School Ngā Whetū Kohara is a co-educational full primary school in Christchurch, within the Canterbury Region, operating in the state sector, with 469 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 398. The school has been open since 1965.

With 469 students on roll, Merrin School Ngā Whetū Kohara is a large school — larger than about 79% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 398, 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 65 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Asian at 46.9% and European at 39.8%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.25 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.