Parnell School

Parnell School is a co-educational full primary school in Auckland, within the Auckland Region, operating in the state sector, with 546 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 382. The school has been open since 1873.

With 546 students on roll, Parnell School is a large school — larger than about 84% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 382, 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 81 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Asian at 51.6% and European at 34.5%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.11 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.