Tuakau School

Tuakau School is a co-educational contributing school in Tuakau, within the Waikato Region, operating in the state sector, with 260 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 516. The school has been open since 1870.

With 260 students on roll, Tuakau School is a medium-sized school — larger than about 56% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 516, 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 53 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 44% and Pasifika at 35.2%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.34 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.