# Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School

Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Barrington, Christchurch

https://www.chch.live/school/339-te-kura-tuarua-o-horomaka-hillmorton-high-school

## Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4 · Current Equity Index: 467

*Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.*

## The record
- Tankerville Road, Barrington, Christchurch, 8244
- Roll: 1,415 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1961
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.21, the Ministry’s remoteness measure
- Roll by ethnicity: European 867 · Māori 234 · Pacific 135 · Asian 355 · MELAA 73 · Other 17 · International 55
- Phone: 03-3385119
- Email: admin@hillmorton.school.nz
- Contact: Sam Ainsworth
- Website: http://www.hillmorton.school.nz

## Enrolment zone
- Hillmorton High School (Year 9-13), in force from 2025-10-06 · 40 km²
- Hillmorton High School (Year 7-8), in force from 2025-10-06 · 15 km²
- Covers: Addington, Aidanfield, Hillmorton, Hoon Hay, Spreydon, and the fringes of Christchurch Central, Halswell, Somerfield, Sydenham, Westmorland

*Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary.*

## Other schools near here
- [Te Kura o Mōkihi Spreydon School](https://www.chch.live/school/3512-te-kura-o-mokihi-spreydon-school), decile 3 · EQI 453
- [Southern Health School](https://www.chch.live/school/1631-southern-health-school), decile 1 · EQI 569
- [Te Kōmanawa Rowley School](https://www.chch.live/school/3492-te-komanawa-rowley-school), decile 1 · EQI 535
- [Hoon Hay Te Kura Kōaka](https://www.chch.live/school/3379-hoon-hay-te-kura-koaka), decile 8 · EQI 416
- [Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch)](https://www.chch.live/school/3461-our-lady-of-the-assumption-school-chch), decile 10 · EQI 401
- [Te Ara Koropiko West Spreydon School](https://www.chch.live/school/3588-te-ara-koropiko-west-spreydon-school), decile 4 · EQI 445
- [New Zealand IT College (Proposed)](https://www.chch.live/school/4539-new-zealand-it-college-proposed), private, not rated
- [Aidanfield Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/82-aidanfield-christian-school), decile 8 · EQI 377

## The green nearby
Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m, measured to the outline itself, so a spot on a big reserve’s edge still counts.
- [Hoon Hay Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1073-hoon-hay-park), Sports ground · 380 m to its edge
- [Every park on the roll](https://www.chch.live/parks)

## The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries, measured to the pin, not the gate.
- Halswell Rd near Tankerville Rd, 251 m · route 7

## Under the ground
The plans and surveys the site keeps, asked once of the ground Footprints and plan maps, not engineering findings.
- [The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction), mapped ground failure, a footprint, not a finding
- [The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability”](https://www.chch.live/vulnerability), the 2019 screening study

What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.55768&lon=172.592782

## Questions, answered briefly

**What kind of school is Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School?**

Secondary (Year 7-15) · State · Co-Educational, in Barrington.

**How many students does Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School have?**

1,415 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.

**What is Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School's Equity Index?**

EQI 467, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.

**Does Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School have an enrolment zone?**

2 zone polygons on record, it covers Addington, Aidanfield, Hillmorton and 2 more suburbs (+ fringes). The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.


Data: https://api.chch.live/school?id=339 · directory refreshed 3 October 2026