Porirua East School

Porirua East School is a co-educational contributing school in Porirua, within the Wellington Region, operating in the state sector, with 152 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 500. The school has been open since 1954.

With 152 students on roll, Porirua East School is a medium-sized school — larger than about 38% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 500, 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 roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 50.3% and European at 28.1%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.05 (very low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.