The Gardens School

The Gardens School is a co-educational full primary school in Manukau, within the Auckland Region, operating in the state sector, with 536 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 400. The school has been open since 2002.

With 536 students on roll, The Gardens School is a large school — larger than about 83% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 400, 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 63 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with Asian at 53.9% and European at 22.7%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.24 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.