Waimairi School

Waimairi School is a co-educational contributing school in Christchurch, within the Canterbury Region, operating in the state sector, with 330 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 418. The school has been open since 1920.

With 330 students on roll, Waimairi School is a large school — larger than about 65% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 418, 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 45 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

75.8% of students identify as European, so the school has a strongly homogeneous roll. Students of Asian descent make up 16.4%.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.16 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.