Richmond School (Napier)

Richmond School (Napier) is a co-educational contributing school in Napier, within the Hawke's Bay Region, operating in the state sector, with 72 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 569. The school has been open since 1962.

With 72 students on roll, Richmond School (Napier) is a small school — larger than about 20% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 569, which is well 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 106 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 50% and European at 43.3%. 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.