Wanaka Primary School

Wanaka Primary School is a co-educational contributing school in Wanaka, within the Otago Region, operating in the state sector, with 524 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 393. The school has been open since 1987.

With 524 students on roll, Wanaka Primary School is a large school — larger than about 83% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 393, 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 70 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

87.1% of students identify as European, so the school has a strongly homogeneous roll. Students of Asian descent make up 8.2%.

On the isolation index the school scores 3.3 (very high isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.