Paparoa Street School

Paparoa Street School is a co-educational contributing school in Christchurch, within the Canterbury Region, operating in the state sector, with 341 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 398. The school has been open since 1953.

With 341 students on roll, Paparoa Street School is a large school — larger than about 66% 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 largest group is European at 65.1%, with a meaningful Asian community at 23.1% — a mixed but clearly led roll.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.15 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.