St Francis School (Thames)

St Francis School (Thames) is a co-educational full primary school in Thames, within the Waikato Region, operating in the state : integrated sector, with 78 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 409. The school has been open since 1912.

With 78 students on roll, St Francis School (Thames) is a small school — larger than about 21% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 409, 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 54 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Asian at 50% and European at 39.1%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 1.06 (high isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.