Ethnic Composition
The New Zealand Education Review Office (ERO) provided the following statistics for the month June 2010: European 47%, Asian 23%, Māori 12%, Pasifika 5%, Other 13%. On the International Languages Week of 2009, it was reported that the school was composed of 42 different backgrounds.
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