Te Kura o te Tauawa Halswell School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 10. Current Equity Index: 385. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 1 School Road, Halswell, Christchurch, 8025 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Halswell — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 740 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1864
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.26 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3227038
• Email: admin@halswell.school.nz
• Contact: Stuart Cameron
• Website: halswell.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.

Enrolment zone

• Halswell School — in force from 2022-01-01 · 15 km²

It covers: Halswell, Kennedys Bush.

Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.

Other schools near here

• Te Mātaitihi (Proposed opening date: 2027-01-01) — not rated · 1.7 km
• Oaklands Te Kura o Ōwaka — decile 9 · EQI 410 · 2.2 km
• Aidanfield Christian School — decile 8 · EQI 377 · 3.0 km
• Te Whānau o Ōtūmatua — decile 2 · EQI 540 · 3.1 km
• Knights Stream School- Mingimingi Hautoa — EQI 385 · 3.4 km
• Te Kōmanawa Rowley School — decile 1 · EQI 535 · 3.4 km
• Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School — decile 4 · EQI 467 · 4.1 km
• Hoon Hay Te Kura Kōaka — decile 8 · EQI 416 · 4.1 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.

• Muir Park · 151 m to its edge
• Birchdale Reserve · 195 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Halswell — 68 m · route 100

The reports nearby

231 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 182 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Water Leak — 504–526 Halswell Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
• Pothole — 2 Larsens Road, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 17 September 2026
• Pothole — 526 Halswell Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 14 September 2026
• Pothole — 2 Larsens Road, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 10 September 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 9 Provincial Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 7 August 2026
• Water Leak — 5 Provincial Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 3 August 2026
• Water Leak — 7 Provincial Road, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 2 August 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 1E Provincial Road, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 29 July 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 9 Provincial Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 26 July 2026
• Damaged Street Sign — 1 School Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 20 July 2026
• Water Leak — 40 Muir Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 28 June 2026
• Water Leak — 40 Muir Avenue, Halswell, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 2 June 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.

• The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• The September 2010 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study