St Peter Chanel School (Otaki)

St Peter Chanel School (Otaki) is a co-educational full primary school in Ōtaki, within the Wellington Region, operating in the state : integrated sector, with 21 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 562. The school has been open since 1894.

With 21 students on roll, St Peter Chanel School (Otaki) is a very small school — larger than about 7% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 562, 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 99 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 53.8% and European at 46.2%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.48 (moderate isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.