Taita College

Taita College is a co-educational secondary (year 9-15) school in Lower Hutt, within the Wellington Region, operating in the state sector, with 331 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 520. The school has been open since 1957.

With 331 students on roll, Taita College is a large school — larger than about 65% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 520, 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 57 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 42.6% and European at 41.1%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.2 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.