Cashmere High School
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Somerfield, Christchurch
2,450 students on the roll in Somerfield · EQI 413 · an enrolment scheme in place.
The offical website of Cashmere High School — cashmere.school.nz
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 9. Current Equity Index: 413. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 172 Rose Street, Somerfield, Christchurch, 8024 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Somerfield — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 2,450 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations may be requested
- Opened 1956
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.14 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3329129
- Email: office@cashmere.school.nz
- Contact: John Stradwick
- Website: cashmere.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
- Cashmere High School — in force from 2021-01-01 · 213 km²
It covers: Beckenham, Cashmere, Cracroft, Diamond Harbour, Governors Bay, Hoon Hay, Huntsbury, Saint Martins, Somerfield, Westmorland — and the fringes of Cass Bay, Corsair Bay, Hillsborough, Kennedys Bush, Opawa.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Somerfield Te Kura Wairepo — decile 8 · EQI 419 · 498 m
- TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi — decile 3 · EQI 494 · 747 m
- Te Kura o Huriawa Thorrington — decile 10 · EQI 377 · 1.0 km
- Te Ara Koropiko West Spreydon School — decile 4 · EQI 445 · 1.2 km
St Peter's School Te Kura Haoika — decile 8 · EQI 397 · 1.2 km
Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch) — decile 10 · EQI 401 · 1.4 km
Christchurch South Karamata Intermediate School — decile 8 · EQI 411 · 1.4 km- Hoon Hay Te Kura Kōaka — decile 8 · EQI 416 · 1.4 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.
- Cashmere View Playground · 373 m to its edge
- Cashmere Riverbank Reserve · 391 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Rose St near Beechworth Ave — 63 m · route 44
The reports nearby
455 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Water & drains and Roads & footpaths, 368 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
Water Leak — Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
Damaged Street Sign — 93 Barrington St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 29 September 2026
Water Leak — Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 29 September 2026- Street Light Outage — 92 Stanbury Avenue, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 29 September 2026
Damaged Road — 95 Stanbury Avenue, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 18 September 2026
Pavement - Damaged — 110 Stanbury Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 16 September 2026
Water General — 103 Rose Street, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 9 September 2026
Water Leak — 134C Rose Street, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 8 September 2026
Hazard — vehicle — 107 Rose St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 5 September 2026
Pavement - Damaged — 93 Barrington St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 3 September 2026
Roads - General — 107 Rose St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 2 September 2026
Damaged Road — 192 Rose St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 29 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.
- The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study
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
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Co-Educational — in Somerfield.
2,450 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 413 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 9.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers Beckenham, Cashmere, Cracroft and 7 more suburbs (+ fringes). The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.