Te Kura o te Tauawa Halswell School

Te Kura o te Tauawa Halswell School is a co-educational full primary school in Christchurch, within the Canterbury Region, operating in the state sector, with 740 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 385. The school has been open since 1864.

With 740 students on roll, Te Kura o te Tauawa Halswell School is a very large school — larger than about 91% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 385, 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 78 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The largest group is European at 58.7%, with a meaningful Asian community at 29.9% — a mixed but clearly led roll.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.26 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.