St Joseph's School (Upper Hutt)

St Joseph's School (Upper Hutt) is a co-educational full primary school in Upper Hutt, within the Wellington Region, operating in the state : integrated sector, with 558 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 411. The school has been open since 1858.

With 558 students on roll, St Joseph's School (Upper Hutt) is a large school — larger than about 84% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 411, 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 52 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 42.5% and Asian at 41%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.01 (very low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.