Cheviot Area School
Composite · State · Cheviot
173 students on the roll · EQI 463.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 463. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Hall Street, Cheviot, 7341
- Roll: 173 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1884
- Isolation index 2.15, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-3198787
- Email: accounts@cheviot.school.nz
- Contact: Virginia Neal
- Website: cheviot.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
- Waiau School, decile 8 · EQI 442 · 25.9 km
- Greta Valley School, decile 5 · EQI 442 · 29.7 km
- Rotherham School, decile 10 · EQI 441 · 29.8 km
- Amuri Area School, decile 8 · EQI 444 · 35.2 km
- Omihi School, decile 10 · EQI 435 · 41.6 km
- Hanmer Springs School, decile 9 · EQI 426 · 48.5 km
- Waipara School, decile 6 · EQI 478 · 49.7 km
- Waikari School, decile 5 · EQI 455 · 50.0 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.
- Cheviot Rest Reserve, Reserve · 115 m to its edge
- Specimen Plantation Reserve, Reserve · 205 m to its edge
- Hutchison Street Reserve, Reserve · 212 m to its edge
- Cheviot War Memorial, Reserve · 224 m to its edge
- Cheviot Old Hall Site Reserve, Reserve · 259 m to its edge
- Findlays Plantation, Reserve · 319 m to its edge
Facilities nearby
Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point, libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.
- Cheviot Hall, Hall · 78 m
- Cheviot Community Library & Service Centre, Library · 123 m
- Cheviot Service Centre, Service centre · 133 m
- Cheviot Public Toilets, Public toilet · 135 m
- Cheviot Caravan Waste Dump, Camper sewage disposal · 262 m
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
Composite · State · Co-Educational.
173 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 463, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
Cheviot Rest Reserve, Specimen Plantation Reserve, Hutchison Street Reserve and 3 more, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.