Kimihia Parents' College

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

• 521 Ferry Road, Woolston, Christchurch, 8642 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Woolston — the suburb’s own record
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 2004
• Isolation index 0.12 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-9820100 Ext 701
• Email: bianca.nielsen@klc.school.nz
• Contact: Bianca Nielson
• Website: linwoodcollege.school.nz

Other schools near here

• Te Waka Unua School — decile 2 · EQI 509 · 120 m
• Te Aratai College — decile 3 · EQI 507 · 881 m
• Te Huarahi Linwood Avenue School — decile 2 · EQI 499 · 1.1 km
• St Anne's School (Woolston) — decile 3 · EQI 447 · 1.2 km
• Tamariki School — decile 4 · EQI 464 · 1.3 km
• Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School — decile 4 · EQI 463 · 1.4 km
• Te Ahuwai Bromley School — decile 3 · EQI 513 · 1.4 km
• St Mark's School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 1.5 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.

• Mary Dixon Park · 61 m to its edge
• Woolston Park — Sports ground · 114 m to its edge
• Arran Playground · 317 m to its edge
• Christchurch Quay Reserve · 374 m to its edge

The bus stop

The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.

• Ferry Rd near Smith St — 147 m · route 3

The register nearby

Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.

• MED substation and setting

The reports nearby

888 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 747 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Water Leak — 8 Okeover Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 3 October 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 25 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 24 Smith St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 18 September 2026
• Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 490–504 Ferry Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 15 September 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 9 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Woolston Park 502 Ferry Road, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 8 September 2026
• Pavement - General — 454A Ferry Road, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 8 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 4 Tilford Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 7 September 2026
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — 16–20 Smith St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 4 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 1 Smith Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 27 August 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 475 Ferry Road, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 27 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 1 Smith Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 27 August 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 — Bells Creek, Heathcote River — the managed reach
• Inside a recorded flood footprint — 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce
• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study