St Francis Xavier School (Tawa)

St Francis Xavier School (Tawa) is a co-educational contributing school in Wellington, within the Wellington Region, operating in the state : integrated sector, with 160 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 402. The school has been open since 1960.

With 160 students on roll, St Francis Xavier School (Tawa) is a medium-sized school — larger than about 40% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 402, 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 61 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 33.9% and Asian at 32.3%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.18 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.