Nawton School

Nawton School is a co-educational contributing school in Hamilton, within the Waikato Region, operating in the state sector, with 521 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 535. The school has been open since 1960.

With 521 students on roll, Nawton School is a large school — larger than about 82% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 535, 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 72 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 50.7% and Pasifika at 27.3%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.13 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.