Demystifying the school equity index

I received a comment from Steven Price at Community Support Waitakere on my recent post about the Chorus Equity Fibre product that is so cool I felt I had to share this.

I wonder how many rolled their eyes when I started talking about schools with an equity index of 490+. Whatever happened to the decile rankings for schools – most of us could understand rankings on a 1-10 scale, but that’s progress I guess – a more refined way for the Ministry of Education to allocate funding to schools.

But Steven has completely demystified this for me, and for you I hope.

Using publicly available information, he has created and shared a Google Map that displays NZ Schools, including their EQI and other details. Here’s a sample, where the ‘greens’ represent schools that meet Chorus’ Equity Fibre criteria.