Te Aratai College

Te Aratai College is a co-educational secondary (year 7-15) school in Christchurch, within the Canterbury Region, operating in the state sector, with 1,240 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 507. The school has been open since 1954.

With 1,240 students on roll, Te Aratai College is a very large school — larger than about 96% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 507, 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 44 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 54.4% and Asian at 26.2%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.09 (very low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.