Diamond Harbour School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 10. Current Equity Index: 412. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 13 Hunters Road, Diamond Harbour, 8971 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: diamond-harbour — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 122 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1945
• Isolation index 0.78 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Setting: Small urban area
• Phone: 03-3294842
• Email: office@diamondharbour.school.nz
• Contact: Richard Goodyear
• Website: diamondharbour.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

• Lyttelton Primary School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 3.1 km
• Heathcote Valley School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 5.8 km
• Ko Taku Reo - Deaf Education New Zealand — EQI 516 · 6.1 km
• Te Kura o Ōhinetahi - Governors Bay — decile 10 · EQI 386 · 6.2 km
• Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 401 · 6.8 km
• Sumner School — decile 10 · EQI 382 · 6.9 km
• Mt Pleasant School — decile 10 · EQI 393 · 7.6 km
• Te Raekura Redcliffs School — decile 10 · EQI 400 · 8.2 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.

• Laurenson Park · 125 m to its edge
• Coastal Cliff Reserve · 261 m to its edge
• Ron Arnold Reserve · 391 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.

• Diamond Harbour Recycling Depot — Transfer station · 223 m

The reports nearby

183 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 143 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Water Leak — 5 Taimana Ln, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 1 September 2026
• Roads - General — 3 Hunters Road, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 21 August 2026
• Roads - General — 2–24 Koromiko Cres, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 24 May 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 3–5 Hunters Rd, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 16 May 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 1 Stoddart Terrace, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 12 May 2026
• Water Leak — 10 Hunters Road, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 19 April 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 4–8 Stoddart Tce, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 19 April 2026
• Animal - Domestic — 4–8 Stoddart Tce, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 11 April 2026
• Pavement - General — 4 Hunters Rd, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 11 April 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 9 Stoddart Tce, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 6 April 2026
• Damaged Road — 55 Ranui Crescent, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 1 April 2026
• Water Leak — 124 Marine Drive, Diamond Harbour 8971, New Zealand · 27 March 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.

• Under the hill country’s watch band — the plan’s broad instability overlay
• The rockfall survey counts 3 boulders within 500 m — 0 came down · 1 wobbles easy