Te Kura o Wairau

Te Kura o Wairau is a co-educational contributing school in Palmerston North, within the Manawatū-Whanganui Region, operating in the state sector, with 156 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 541. The school has been open since 1963.

With 156 students on roll, Te Kura o Wairau is a medium-sized school — larger than about 39% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 541, which is well 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 78 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Pasifika at 48% and European at 44.1%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.11 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.