Southern Health School
Specialist School · State · Hillmorton, Christchurch
20 students on the roll in Hillmorton · EQI 569.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 569. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 2 Halswell Road, Hillmorton, Christchurch, 8140 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Hillmorton — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 20 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 2000
- Isolation index 0.2 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3666739
- Email: secretary@southernhealth.school.nz
- Contact: Linda MILLER
- Website: srhs.school.nz
Who the roll is
Students may identify with more than one group — the counts are the Ministry’s own and need not sum to the roll.
Other schools near here
- Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School — decile 4 · EQI 467 · 431 m
Te Kura o Mōkihi Spreydon School — decile 3 · EQI 453 · 524 m- Te Kōmanawa Rowley School — decile 1 · EQI 535 · 1.1 km
- New Zealand IT College (Proposed) — private — not rated · 1.3 km
- Te Ara Koropiko West Spreydon School — decile 4 · EQI 445 · 1.5 km
- Hoon Hay Te Kura Kōaka — decile 8 · EQI 416 · 1.6 km
Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch) — decile 10 · EQI 401 · 1.6 km
Sacred Heart School (Christchurch) — decile 4 · EQI 404 · 1.8 km
The green nearby
Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m — measured to the outline itself, so a school on a big reserve’s edge still counts.
- Spreydon Riverbank Reserves · 57 m to its edge
- Sunnyside Heritage Garden — Botanic · 102 m to its edge
- Seager Park · 187 m to its edge
- Nga Puna Wai — Sports ground · 315 m to its edge
- Canterbury Agricultural Park — Sports ground · 326 m to its edge
- Albion Reserve · 347 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Halswell Rd near Coppell Pl — 47 m · route 7
The reports nearby
764 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 625 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
Hazard — vehicle — 23 Coppell Place, Hillmorton, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 24 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 7R Annex Road, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 23 September 2026- Dumped Rubbish — Annex Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 23 September 2026
Damaged Road — 19 Halswell Road, Hillmorton, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 16 September 2026
Hazard — vehicle — 17 Annex Road, Addington, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 12 September 2026
Facility - General Request — Sunnyside Heritage Garden 18 John Campbell Crescent, Hillmorton, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 12 September 2026
Hazard — vehicle — 21 Coppell Place, Hillmorton, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 25 August 2026
General Request — Sunnyside Heritage Garden 18 John Campbell Crescent, Hillmorton, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 20 August 2026
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa — 10 Lincoln Road, Hillmorton, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 15 August 2026
Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 13 August 2026
Street Light Outage — 33 Halswell Road, Hoon Hay, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 30 July 2026
Pavement - Damaged — 13 Halswell Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 29 July 2026
Under the ground
The plans and surveys the site keeps, asked once of the school’s ground — footprints and plan maps, not engineering findings.
- On the plan’s flood map — Heathcote River — the managed reach
- The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Specialist School · State · Co-Educational — in Hillmorton.
20 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 569 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 1.
Spreydon Riverbank Reserves, Sunnyside Heritage Garden, Seager Park and 3 more — green space within 400 m of the school’s point.