Waterloo School

Waterloo School is a co-educational contributing school in Lower Hutt, within the Wellington Region, operating in the state sector, with 522 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 391. The school has been open since 1938.

With 522 students on roll, Waterloo School is a large school — larger than about 82% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 391, 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 72 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 46.4% and Asian at 36.6%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.07 (very low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.