Vardon School

Vardon School is a co-educational contributing school in Hamilton, within the Waikato Region, operating in the state sector, with 361 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 474. The school has been open since 1956.

With 361 students on roll, Vardon School is a large school — larger than about 69% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 474, which is close to the national average of 463. That means the roll faces a broadly typical level of socio-economic challenge compared with schools across Aotearoa.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 52.4% and Pasifika at 20.9%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.13 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.