Rhode Street School

Rhode Street School is a co-educational full primary school in Hamilton, within the Waikato Region, operating in the state sector, with 212 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 537. The school has been open since 1959.

With 212 students on roll, Rhode Street School is a medium-sized school — larger than about 49% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 537, 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 74 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Asian at 38.8% and European at 32%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.12 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.