Tai Wananga

Tai Wananga is a co-educational secondary (year 9-15) school in Hamilton, within the Waikato Region, operating in the state sector, with 165 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 526. The school has been open since 2011.

With 165 students on roll, Tai Wananga is a medium-sized school — larger than about 41% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 526, which is 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 63 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 46.8% and European at 45.6%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.12 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.