Te Ao Mārama School

Te Ao Mārama School is a co-educational contributing school in Hamilton, within the Waikato Region, operating in the state sector, with 486 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 390. The school has been open since 2019.

With 486 students on roll, Te Ao Mārama School is a large school — larger than about 80% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 390, 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 73 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 44.2% and Asian at 43.6%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.3 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.